The IATF 124-B resolution released on July 2, 2021, allows interzonal travels from general community quarantine to modified general community quarantine areas and vice versa for fully vaccinated persons.
Generose Tecson, city tourism officer underscored that even the city’s quarantine classification is placed under general community quarantine, the city cannot adhere interzonal travel because of presence of the city ordinance that requires test before travel.
She said this ordinance has to be amended first, before allowing interzonal travel for persons who are fully vaccinated.
Tecson told the people who want to travel to peer on the guidelines of the accepting local government unit before leaving.
“You need to apply your entry to accepting local government unit before you are allowed to travel to their area and you need to receive their respective QR Code or certificate of acceptance, before allowing entry to their place,” she said.
Tecson bared the problem of authenticating the document like the vaccination card presented by the bearer, since vaccination cards have different makeover.
She said the application introduced by the Department of Information and Communications Technology is not yet up and running.
“It will be the basis for checking the authenticity of the vaccination cards,” she said.
Tecson felt unyielding because many people were proven to have falsified the RT-PCR Test results.
“How much more the vaccination cards which have no basis for checking,” she stressed.
Tecson said that the current situation does not call for interzonal travels with the presence of more COVID-19 variants like the Delta and the Lambda.
She said the test before travel is working on domestic flights, and gives the assurance that inbound passengers are negative of the COVID-19 infection.
“However, since this is COVID-19, it is not a major assurance since the symptoms may manifest, even for a day after the testing,” Tecson said. (PIA XI-Joey Sem G. Dalumpines)
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