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IATF allows more health care workers to leave PH

MORE health care workers will be allowed to leave the country after the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) raised the annual cap on their deployment.

'The Inter-Agency Task Force on Thursday, June 17, 2021, increased the annual deployment ceiling of new hire health care workers (HCWs) for Mission Critical Skills (MCS) to 6,500,' Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said in a statement.