MANILA, Philippines — Health Undersecretary Leopoldo Vega on Thursday recommended wearing two masks instead of one as a way of enhancing minimum public health standards amid the spike in COVID-19 cases.
“You have to enhance it [minimum public health standards] eh, if there is a double masking, you have to double mask,” he said in a briefing.
“You have to do all of the things that the minimum health standard requires plus the executive power of the local government units to provide iyong tinatawag nilang (what we call) granular lockdowns or zonal containment because this is very effective, and we have seen this last year,” Vega added.
He said enhancing minimum public health…
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