Philippines gets ready to ease face mask rules

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In this photo taken on August 22, 2022, parents accompany their children on their first day of face-to-face classes at the Concepcion Elementary School in Marikina.

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MANILA, Philippines (Updated 3:10 p.m.) — Malacañang announced Wednesday that the government’s pandemic task force has recommended to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to make mask wearing voluntary in outdoor settings, a proposal that has secured the chief executive’s “verbal approval.”

 

While Marcos is said to have given his go ahead for the proposal in a call with Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos, Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said this is still not a policy.

 

Department of Health officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire also said the recommendation has to be formalized in an executive order.

 

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