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John Wong's statement on mask use dated 10/12/2022

Requested from PSA by D. Besa at 05:29 AM on Nov 09, 2022.
Purpose: Research and transparency
Date of Coverage: 09/01/2022 - 10/12/2022
Tracking no: #PSA-589126603861

Besa 05:29 AM, Nov 09, 2022 

Hi

In the Facebook post of Dr Leachon on 10/22/22 with a screenshot of news from Inquirer, it was reported that epidemiologist John Wong made a call to the public in a DOH townhall meeting to continue wearing masks outdoors because mask use prevents death from other diseases, particularly respiratory ones, according to data from the Philippine Statistics Authority.

In connection with this, I would like to get the following information:

1. Department or division in the PSA holding this data on mask use as preventive of death from diseases
2. Title of this data 
3. Period covered by this data

Nisperos 12:00 PM, Dec 28, 2022 

December 28, 2022

Dear Dominic Alfred Besa,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Nov 09, 2022 05:29:21 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

You asked for John Wong's statement on mask use dated 10/12/2022.

Your FOI request is approved. 

Our apologies for the delayed response.

We regret to inform you that we do not have specific data on mask use. Our data related to this is only limited to the results of our Vital Statistics Report under registered deaths by causes:
https://psa.gov.ph/content/vital-statistics-report-vsr
http://www.psa.gov.ph/vital-statistics
http://openstat.psa.gov.ph/Database/Population-and-Migration

For your specific data request, you may try to coordinate with the Department of Health.

Thank you.

Respectfully,

Noel G. Perez
(Information Technology Officer III)
Officer-in-Charge
Information Technology and Dissemination Service

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