DOT bucks DOH proposal to keep some pandemic restrictions

March 4, 2023 | 12:00am

Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia-Frasco and DOH officer-in-charge Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire met last Wednesday to tackle the provisions that will make up the Joint Administrative Order on Healthy Public and Open Spaces.

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MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Tourism (DOT) has opposed a proposal of the Department of Health (DOH) to keep some of the COVID-19 prohibitions, arguing that the country’s tourism industry is still being revived after it was brought to a halt during the peak of the pandemic.

Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia-Frasco and DOH officer-in-charge Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire met last Wednesday to