Palace statement on Philippine government’s “flip-flopping” policies.
Here’s a statement from Malacañang about the Philippine government’s “flip-flopping” policies on wearing of face shields and on the resumption of face-to-face classes.
During his regular press briefing on Tuesday, Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said that he saw nothing wrong with flip-flopping policies on face shields and on the resumption of face-to-face classes in the country.
According to Roque, there’s nothing wrong with flip-flopping policies because there were “supervening events” and the reason why the Philippine government flip-flopping policies was because there’s a Delta COVID-19 variant.
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“Wala pong mali mag flip-flop kung meron kasing supervening events. Kaya nga po tayo nag ‘flip-flop’ kasi meron namang Delta variant. Kaya po tayo nagkaroon ng surge kasi nagkaroon tayo ng Alpha variant. So depende kung ano ang nadidiskubre ng siyensya. Kinakailangan marunong tayo mag adapt,” Roque said.
Roque’s statement came a day after President Rodrigo Duterte took back his earlier statement lifting the mandatory wearing of face shields outdoors and opposed the proposal of the Department of Education (DepEd) to hold limited face-to-face classes in areas with few coronavirus cases.
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Meanwhile, Roque denied announcing the policy on wearing of face shields before it was made final during Monday night’s meeting between President Rodrigo Duterte and the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
“I didn’t announce it. It was Senate President Tito Sotto who announced it, corroborated by Senator Villanueva, so it’s not an issue of announcing. I didn’t announce it. The Senate President and Senator Villanueva both announced it and I only confirmed that verbally the President said it,” Roque said.
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