Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Wednesday, July 21, said efforts allowing the interoperability of cellphone numbers would finally come into fruition more than two years after the enactment of the landmark legislation, the Mobile Number Portability Act (MNPA). (PIXABAY) Gatchalian said this follows...
Around 1 million teaching and non-teaching personnel will start receiving their subscriber identity module, or SIM cards with connectivity load, the Department of Education (DepEd) said on Monday, July 12. (Photo from DepEd/ MANILA BULLETIN) DepEd said it has begun distributing SIM cards to its...
The local government of Quezon City has announced that its vaccination cards will have tamper-proof security seals starting Friday, July 9. The seal will be countersigned by an authorized representative of Task Force Vax to Normal. “The security seal certifies that vaccination cards presented by...
The League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) is pushing for the placement of a security mark on the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccination cards as part of the measures to prevent them from being faked. In an interview over ABS-CBN’s TeleRadyo, LPP national president and Marinduque...
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who have been fully inoculated abroad from the coronavius disease (COVID-19) should have their vaccination cards validated by the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) before coming back to the Philippines. (Photo from DOLE Facebook page) Thus, said Department of...
Malacañang on Tuesday, July 6, warned Filipinos who will fake their vaccination cards for interzonal travel, saying that they will get imprisoned for a long time for falsifying a public document. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque made this warning as the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the...
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said that the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) was working on a common digital ID that would serve as proof of a person's vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles (PCOO / MANILA BULLETIN...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) exhorted the local government units (LGUs), private groups, and the general public on Sunday, June 13, to use the Philippine Identification (PhilID) card as the single official government-issued identification card for all their...
As the country's vaccination drive continues, Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion has proposed certain safeguards to prevent fraud in vaccine cards in the country. An airport employee takes a selfie while receiving a coronavirus shot at a vaccination site established in the...
Fully vaccinated people should no longer be required to undergo a swab test before traveling to tourist destinations in the country, according to a Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion. Members of the Armed Force of the Philippines line up for COVID-19 testing at the RIzal...
Over 1.35 million beneficiaries have so far received P4.87 billion worth of unconditional cash transfer (UCT) grants through cash cards, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said Thursday, June 3. DSWD (Manila Bulletin File photo) Citing the report from the UCT-National Program...
As more Filipinos get inoculated against the coronavirus, Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion is calling for "greater mobility" for vaccine recipients in the country. A health worker administers a coronavirus vaccine to a Taguig City resident at a vaccination bus parked in...
