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Thursday, December 17, 2020

Use of face shield, mask now mandatory in all public places

THE INTER-AGENCY Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases or IATF-EID has ordered the mandatory use of face shield and face mask in all public places in an effort to lessen the risk of transmitting the deadly Covid-19 disease.

In a recently released guidelines, the IATF-EID said: “All persons are mandated to wear full-coverage face shields together with face masks, ear loop masks, indigenous, reusable, or do-it-yourself masks, or other facial protective equipment which can effectively lessen the transmission of Covid-19, whenever they go out of their residences, pursuant to existing guidelines issued by the national government subject to fair and humane penalties or punishments that may be imposed by LGUs or implemented by law enforcement agencies, respectively.”

It also urged local governments to use IATF-endorsed contact tracing and contact monitoring applications - StaySafe.ph and TanodCOVID - where they are available or use community-based contact tracing and contact monitoring.

While the IATF-EID only now ordered the mandatory use of face mask, Zamboanga City has been practising this since October.

Mayor Beng Climaco, who chairs the local Covid-19 task force, strictly ordered the implementation of mandatory wearing of face mask and face shield in public places that largely helped the local government control the spread of the deadly respiratory disease. (Zamboanga Post) 


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