The Inter-agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) is reviewing the requirement on the use of face shields, Health Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd said on Thursday.

Duque made the announcement after President Rodrigo Duterte suggested that face shields be worn only in "hospital settings."

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