The Department of Health (DOH) said Tuesday it is not considering proposing the mandatory wearing of face masks anew amid the increasing number of new COVID-19 infections.
At a press conference, DOH officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said the nationwide positivity rate, or the percentage of people who were found positive for COVID-19 among the total number of individuals tested, has now gone up to 7.6%, from last week’s 6.9%.
“Ang kaso po natin ngayon from just 274 cases per day last week, ngayon nasa 371 cases per day tayo. Tumataas pero hindi naman nagsa-spike nang ganon kataas tulad ng experience natin in the past years,” Vergeire said. In October last year, Malacañang released Executive Order No. 7, which made the wearing of face masks both indoors and outdoors voluntary amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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