COVID-19 task force allows LGUs to ease age restrictions for tourists in MGCQ areas

Local government units may relax age restrictions for tourists in areas under modified general community quarantine, according to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF).

Persons below 15 years old and those who are over 65 years old are generally required to stay at home even under MGCQ, which is the least restrictive in the government’s four-tier quarantine classification system.

However, the age restrictions may be relaxed for tourism purposes upon the determination of LGUs, and subject to prior consultation with the Tourism, Health, and the Interior and Local Government departments and the development of specific guidelines, the IATF said in a resolution approved on Thursday.

Popular tourist destinations such as Boracay and Baguio City had reopened their doors to tourists as the government sought to revive the tourism industry which suffered due to the COVID-19 pandemic. — Virgil Lopez/RSJ, GMA News