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Require booster cards upon entering NCR establishments- Concepcion
By J.Lo
Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion floated the possibility of requiring individuals in Metro Manila to show proof of booster vaccination upon entering business establishments.
At the virtual Kapihan sa Manila Bay Concepcion said establishments in the US require booster cards to be shown before allowing entry to a person.
The presidential adviser said the policy should be copied in Metro Manila, where vaccination rate is high.
“In Metro Manila, we should now enforce that this booster cards be shown…you have to bring your vaccination card and your booster card,” Concepcion said.
Data from Department of Health’s COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard as of February 1, 2022 showed total of 21,949,181 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in National Capital Region (NCR), 9,588,197 of which are completed doses, 9,891,316 are first doses, and 2,469,668 are booster doses.
Concepcion said showing booster cards “should be minimum health protocol even without alert levels because it will remind us to take our vaccination on regular basis, our booster on regular basis…”
“…so that the immunity level in the Philippines will always be at a point that will prevent another variant from affecting us…it will protect those who get hit from hospitalization,” he said.
The alert level system being implemented nationwide amid COVID-19 pandemic cannot be scrapped yet pending significant COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the regions.
” It is not yet time to do away with alert level system just yet because while NCR has high vaccination rate, we still have to ramp up vaccination in other regions,” acting presidential spokesman Karlo Nograles said.
Concepcion earlier proposed scapping of alert level system given that major cities already have high vaccination rate, with NCR , epicenter of pandemic, even exceeding 100%.
“Hopefully, the mutations will go the way of Omicron which is less fatal even if it is more transmissible,but we cannot remove the alert level system yet so that even if we are already under Alert Level 1 and restrictions in terms of indoor and outdoor capacity are lifted and there are new variants of concern, we can quickly escalate to Alert Level 2” Nograles said.
Nograles said Alert Level 1 will only be considered once COVID-19 vaccination rate in senior citizens and those with co-morbidities are already at 70%.
Metro Manila is under Alert Level 2, the second lowest in the new alert level system until February 15. Under this alert level, certain establishments and activities are allowed at 50% capacity indoors for fully vaccinated adults and minors, even if unvaccinated, and 70% capacity outdoors.
Also under Alert Level 2, the implementation of the ” no vaccination, no ride” policy barring unvaccinated people in Metro Manila from boarding public transport will be suspended.
“We do not deescalate until every 15 days so tingnan natin by February 16 if NCR can transition to Alert Level 1…we did consider this last year before Omicron happened,it’s a little bit of a wait and see but we are hopeful and experts are being careful ” Nograles said.
Deputy chief implementer Vince Dizon of the National Task Force Against COVID-19, for his part, said transition plan to lifting the alert level system should be ready by the end of the month.
“We are confident that the number of new COVID-19 cases recorded will continue to decrease, and the steps we have recently made are headed in that direction,” he said during the Kapihan sa Manila Bay forum, referring to the lifting of the alert level system.
“We have to bring it to the level last year before Omicron when there are below 1,000 or even less than 500 COVID-19 cases per day, give us this month to put it together to move from a pandemic approach to an endemic approach ,we really have to convince them to take the jab because it is the only way out of this, ” Dizon added.
Dizon said senior citizens and those with comorbidities, who are at most risk of getting COVID-19, should complete their COVID-19 vaccination as soon as possible.
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