SEN. Sherwin Gatchalian proposed that officials use Covid-19 alert levels to determine which schools should be opened after the pilot run of limited face-to-face classes.

"If businesses and industries can be managed by alert levels, I think school openings should also be based on alert levels. Because the concept here is to go back as normal as possible, and the alert levels give a granular approach to normalcy," Gatchalian said during a Senate hearing on the pilot testing of limited face-to-face classes.

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