Interior Secretary Eduardo Año later clarified that cohabiting couples are permitted to ride. He added that the National Task Force may also consider allowing live-in partners from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community to back ride.
He explained that the policy is subject to the approval of the National Task Force Against COVID-19, which he said is “forthcoming tomorrow.”Roque stressed that only married spouses are allowed to ride together, citing as his sources Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, IATF vice chair, and Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., National Task Force chief implementer.
[Translation: For now, what Secretary Año and Secretary Galvez have relayed to me is that back riding is only allowed for married couples.] "'Yun muna, magstart sa married couple, common-law husband and wife, mga live-in partners," he told CNN Philippines' News Night.
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