IATF: Workshops, seminars now allowed in GCQ areas

MANILA – The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has allowed the conduct of workshops, trainings, seminars, and other related events at 30 percent capacity in areas under general community quarantine (GCQ), Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said Friday.

Congresses, conferences, board meetings, colloquia, conclaves, symposia, and consumer trade shows are also allowed, he added.

Venues include restaurants, in general; restaurants attached to hotels; ballrooms and function halls within hotels; venues within hotel premises; and mall atria, Roque said.

The spokesperson added that the Department of Tourism and the Department of Trade and Industry were tasked to jointly issue necessary guidelines.

Among the areas placed under GCQ for December were Iloilo City in Western Visayas, Metro Manila, Batangas, Tacloban City, Lanao del Sur, Iligan and Davao City./PN

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