Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte plans to implement the full resumption of the face-to-face classes by November this year, President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. announced Tuesday.
The Chief Executive bared the plan after his first Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, July 5.
"Inday Sara's announcement that we have a plan for full face-to-face classes by November, this year, September we will start a phased face-to-face schooling and with that, face-to-face will end up, in early November as already 100 percent attendance ng mga bata (of the children)," Marcos said.
It was late last year when the administration of former president Rodrigo Duterte allowed the resumption of in-person classes in selected schools in the country, with only vaccinated students and teachers allowed to participate.
So far, around 32,000 public schools have been holding physical classes.
On Tuesday, the Department of Health (DOH) announced that minors aged 12-17 years old may now be allowed to receive their booster shots for COVID-19.
