IATF to discuss bid on Cebu City as pilot area for optional masks
(PNA file photo by Joey Razon) MANILA - The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) will look into the proposal to make Cebu City the pilot area for the implementation of the optional wearing of face masks. In a media briefing Friday, Department of Health (DOH) Officer in Charge, Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, said the IATF resolutions, which include the face mask mandate, are still in effect. "Kasi hindi naman natin tinanggal ang IATF (The IATF has not been abolished.) We're just recommending it to be reconstituted," she said. On...