The government has ordered all those living in areas placed under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) to wear face masks in public spaces to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), a Palace official said on Thursday.

LADIES IN WAITING Women wearing face masks line up to enter a grocery store in Quezon City on Thursday, the day Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles ordered the wearing of such masks in public mandatory. PHOTO BY RUY MARTINEZ

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