Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III on Thursday, June 2 said he concurs with suggestions that alert levels be lifted and wearing of face masks outdoors is optional but mandatory indoors.
Sotto said he concurs with the suggestion of Joey Concepcion for government to lift the current state of public emergency to promote confidence if it is ‘’based on scientific data that the virus is no longer as dangerous.’’
Concepcion, Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder, had stated that with the Philippines classified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the lowest travel-risk classification, the country should now lift the state of public health emergency.
He said that lifting the state of public health emergency would promote confidence among the population.
Doing so would also lift the alert levels that have been the basis of mobility and capacity restrictions, and are based on vaccination rates and healthcare utilization rates, he stressed.
‘’It would be just the right time as all over the world, economies are starting to resume normal activity,” he said.
‘’We should focus on job creation, opening up all areas, resuming in-person classes, and encouraging people to go back to work,” he added.