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The Department of Transportation (DOTr) said it would support the implementation of the “No Vaccination, No Ride” policy outside Metro Manila should local government units (LGUs) decide to adopt the same scheme currently being imposed in the National Capital Region.

The government has set a deadline for unvaccinated and partially vaccinated workers in Metro Manila to complete their COVID-19 jabs to continue using public transportation under the “No Vaccination, No Ride” policy.

Amid public uproar on the “No Vaccination, No Ride” policy, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) stressed that the exemptions on the scheme have already been stated in the guidelines even before its implementation.

Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade reiterated that passengers going home to their provinces are not covered by the “No Vaccination, No Ride” policy as “returning home” is considered essential travel.

The government should apologize for public confusion created by the implementation of the “no vaccination, no ride”, especially on the issue pertaining to who should be exempted from the policy, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III said on Wednesday, Jan. 19.

The Department of Transportation (DOTr) reiterated that its “No Vaccination, No Ride” policy being implemented in all public transportation in Metro Manila has exemptions, adding that the measure is only temporary while the region is under Alert Level 3.

The Quezon City (QC) government on Tuesday, Jan. 18, urged authorities to be more careful and humane in implementing the “No Vaccination, No Ride” policy after a woman was not allowed to ride a bus on Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue (EDSA) even as she is partially vaccinated against COVID-19.

The Department of Transportation (DOTr) started on Monday, Jan. 17, the implementation of the “No Vaccination, No Ride” policy on public transportation in Metro Manila as part of measures to restrict the movement of unvaccinated individuals amid the rising cases of COVID-19.

Two drivers were apprehended in Muntinlupa as authorities started implementing the Department of Transportation’s (DOTr) “no vaccination, no ride” policy on Monday, Jan. 17.

The Department of Transportation (DOTr) and its attached agencies are all geared up to implement the “No Vaccination, No Ride” policy in all public transportation to, from, and within Metro Manila starting Monday, Jan. 17.

Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Wednesday scored the Department of Transportation (DOTr) for enforcing a “no vaccination, no ride” policy in the National Capital Region (NCR), saying it should not unfairly punish citizens when it cannot assure there is sufficient COVID-19 vaccines available to all.

That the Philippines might soon hit 20,000 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in a day comes as no surprise to the leader of a pro-science consumer advocacy group.