Beginning August 15, Philippine Airways would require all passengers to put on face shields, on prime of the necessary face masks, on all flights.
The brand new measure is in keeping with the newest pointers for the general public transport sector prescribed by the Philippine’s Division of Transportation.
Passengers must deliver their very own face shields to put on throughout the flight. The airline can be requiring all of its cabin crew to put on full PPE (Private Protecting Gear) throughout flights. Additionally it is conducting temperature checks on passengers, growing the variety of hand sanitisers inflight, and putting in protecting obstacles at airports and ticket data counters.
The airline cancelled all of its scheduled flights to and from Manila since 4 August as the entire Nationwide Capital Area was positioned again in a a lot stricter restriction known as Modified Enhanced Neighborhood Quarantine after day by day confirmed instances reached over 6,000.
The Philippines is now the epicentre of COVID-19 with greater than 139,000 confirmed instances and several other hospitals are in full capability, on the time of this writing.
