A mandatory masking requirement for students in grades 1 to 3 and a masking requirement for grades 1 to 12 outdoors where physical distancing cannot be maintained.
Some commentators have increasingly questioned the value of objective news in a world where people have ready access to news from so many different points of view, while others worry that social media and algorithms are encouraging echo-chambers and pushing communities apart.
Chua from the University of the Philippines looks at what lies behind tensions between the government and much of the media as the country is included in our survey for the first time.