Ph recognizes COVID-19 vac cert fr Cyprus, Croatia, Nepal
By J.Lo
“Upon recommendation of its Technical Working Group, the national/state COVID-19 vaccination certificate of the following countries,territories/jurisdictions namely, Croatia, Cyprus and Nepal shall hereinafter be accepted, recognized for purposes of arrival quarantine protocols as well as for interzonal, intrazonal movement,” acting deputy presidential spokesperson Kris Ablan said provided under Inter-Agency Task Force Resolution 164, the Philippine government has recognized vaccine certificates of three additional countries namely Croatia, Cyprus and Nepal.
“The following countries, territories, jurisdictions will be in addition to such other countries, territories/jurisdictions whose proof of vaccination IATF has already approved for recognition in the Philippines, and without prejudice to such other proofs of vaccination approved by IATF for all inbound travelers,” it added.
Other COVID-19 vaccine certificates previously recognized by the Philippine government include that of Armenia, Hong Kong, Samoa, United States, Chile, Syria, Germany, Oman, Turkey, Ireland, Peru, Estonia, Greece, Portugal, Argentina, Qatar, Australia, Austria, India, United Kingdom, Brunai, Spain, Malta, Bahrain, Iraq, Singapore, Cambodia, Azerbaijan, Uruguay, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia, Vietnam, Macau, Romania, Canada, Japan, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Denmark, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Israel, Ecuador, Egypt, Croatia, Czech Republic, Kuwait, Thailand, Timor Leste, Indonesia, Maldives, France, Monaco, The Netherlands, Republic of Korea, Myanmar, Palau, Georgia, New Zealand, Tunisia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and Albania.
The Philippine government has allowed citizens of special administrative regions of Hong Kong, Macau, as well as Brazil and Israel to enter the country without visa amid COVID-19 pandemic.
This is provided under Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) Resolution 164-A which states that foreigners who are holders of passports of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) or Macau SAR are “entitled to stay for a period not exceeding 14 days” provided that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19; carry/possess an acceptable proof of vaccination; present negative RT-PCR test taken within 48 hours or a negative laboratory based Antigen Test taken within 24 hours prior to the date and time of departure from the country of origin/first port of embarkation in a continuous travel to the Philippines, excluding lay-overs; provided, that, he, she has not left airport premises or has not been admitted into another country during such lay-over; and have passports valid for a period of at least six (6) months at the time of their arrival to the Philippines;
Likewise, the same IATF Resolution states that “citizens, nationals of Brazil and Israel are allowed to stay in the Philippines for period not exceeding 59 days” under the same above mentioned conditions.
There are at least 64 million Filipinos fully vaccinated against COVID-19 so far.
The government is eyeing to have 77 million Filipinos fully vaccinated against COVID-9 by the end of March.
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