President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. will study the recommendation of the government's Covid-19 pandemic task force to make wearing face masks outdoors optional. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. meets Health and Interior officials to discuss the Covid-19 situation in the country....
BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Benjamin Magalong has requested the city council to amend the city ordinance on the use of face masks in anticipation of the President’s approval of the new rule limiting face mask’s mandatory use at indoor settings. In his Sept. 8 letter to the city council coursed...
The Department of Education (DepEd) will wait for the official approval on the optional wearing of face masks outdoors before making the necessary adjustments in its guidelines on in-person classes. Kinder pupils of Corazon Aquino Elementary School in Quezon City pray before the start of their...
Party-list lawmakers on Wednesday, Sept. 7, welcomed the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to lift the mandatory wearing of face masks in outdoor spaces with good ventilation. Palm Sunday at San Roque Parish in Pateros (Photo...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte has enumerated what he believed were the government’s missteps in handling the Covid-19 pandemic, which struck the country in early 2020. (Martin Sanchez/ Unsplash) Villafuerte made these remarks in the context of his call for a more relaxed rule...
Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benhur Abalos said he's willing to make Cebu City a pilot area for the optional use of face masks. (Maskmedicare Shop/ Unsplash) This was confirmed to congressmen by Abalos during the budget deliberations of the agency before the House...
All’s well that ends well. After several days of "word war" over the mandatory use of face masks, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año and Cebu Governor Gwen Garcia have already settled their differences on the enforcement of the policy. With the issue...
CEBU Rep. Duke Frasco with his wife incoming Tourism Secretary Christina Frasco at Vice President-elect Sara Duterte's inauguration in Davao City. CEBU CITY – Reelected Cebu Rep. Vincent Franco “Duke” Frasco on Monday, June 20, announced that he will file a resolution in the House of...
Members of the Quezon City Department of Public Order and Safety (DPOS) apprehended Thursday morning, June 16, persons who were not wearing face masks in the city’s public markets. The city government said that the operation was done since Quezon City’s local Covid-19 early warning system was...
Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia was recently trending because of a “controversial” Executive Order that she signed, making the wearing of face masks optional in open and well-ventilated spaces. She clarified that this is “not totally scrapping the wearing of face mask” but giving people “a...
Parañaque Mayor Edwin Olivarez said the city government is focusing on the economic recovery and not on the removal of the mandatory wearing of face mask. Olivarez said the city of Parañaque will keep the mandatory wearing of face mask and the observance of minimum health protocols as part of...
Outgoing Senate President Vicente Sotto III and outgoing Senator Panfilo Lacson said Tuesday, June 14 that the wearing of face masks outdoors and the placing parts of the country under alert level 2 must be based on science. This was the same position espoused by Sotto and Lacson during the...
