This comes after the Department of Transportation pushed to reduce physical distancing among passengers in public utility vehicles in a bid to help the public transport sector recover.was approved and supported by the National Task Force Against COVID-19 and the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Disease, according to Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade.
It was in mid-March until June that most of public transportation was suspended due to lockdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. But the proposal was met with opposition from Health Secretary Francisco Duque III and Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, who are part of the IATF, during a meeting of the group with Duterte on Monday, Sept. 14., were not consulted on the matter., saying that it was not a product of a “knee-jerk reaction” but was a product of “research and simulation.”
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