(File photo) MANILA - Philippine National Police (PNP) officer-in-charge Lt. Gen. Vicente Danao Jr. on Monday ordered all police officers to follow the national government's rule enforcing mask mandates across the country. Danao made the remark as a clarification over the conflicting views of the Police Regional Office 7 (Central Visayas) and the Cebu Police Provincial Office (CPPO) on Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia's Executive Order (EO) 16 which made the wearing of face masks in open and well-ventilated spaces in the province optional. "Remember we are members of the Philippine Government so whatever the mandate or whatever the Secretary of Interior and Local Government says, we should follow. We have the national IATF (Inter-Agency Task Force)," he said in a press briefing in Camp Crame. Over the weekend, PRO-7 chief Brig. Gen. Roque Eduardo Vega sided with the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases' rule on the mandatory wea
CEBU CITY – Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia seemed to have thrown a shade at the critics of her order that made the wearing of face masks in open spaces in Cebu optional. In a Facebook post Sunday, June 12, Independence Day, Garcia asserted the meaning of her Executive Order No. 16 which lifted the mandatory
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra emphasized that between the resolution of the country s national pandemic task force and LGU executive orders, it is the IATF decision that should be followed.