(BusnissWorld) PHILIPPINE health authorities want to keep the country’s face mask mandate amid a coronavirus pandemic.
“The position of the Department of Health (DoH) is for us to continue on masking,” office-in-charge Maria Rosario S. Vergeire told the ABS-CBN News Channel on Thursday.
The plan to do away with face masks, which President Ferdinand R. Marcos verbally approved, is meant to boost tourism, she said.
“We need to balance health and the economy,” Ms. Vergeire said, adding that as a compromise, the Health department had agreed to remove the mask mandate among low-risk people and under low-risk settings.
“This will only be done outdoors, in settings where it is not crowded, in settings where there is good ventilation, and this will be done among low risk individuals — meaning not the senior citizens, not those with comorbidities, not the children, and definitely not those having symptoms of COVID-19,” she added… Read More
