Another bill seeking rollout of vaccine passports filed in the Senate

A Bureau of Quarantine employee shows the International Certificate of Vaccination, or yellow card, at its satellite office at the SM Mall of Asia in Pasay City yesterday. The yellow card is temporarily issued to travelers who have been fully vaccinated against COVID while the government works on a uniform digital vaccination card.

Krizjohn Rosales

MANILA, Philippines — A third bill seeking to establish a vaccine passport program has been filed in the Senate six months into the government's inoculation program. 

Senate Bill No. 2381 or the Vaccine Program Act was introduced by Sens. Sonny Angara, Pia Cayetano and Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon. 

"This bill seeks to create and implement a Vaccine Passport Program which shall provide an individual's record of COVID-19 vaccinations, RT-PCR testing, any benefits or exemptions, and other information determined to be necessary," they said in an explanatory note. 

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