{"id":15252,"date":"2021-07-08T17:59:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T09:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/?p=15252"},"modified":"2021-07-09T10:21:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T02:21:54","slug":"boracay-island-keeps-rt-pcr-test-for-vaccinated-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2021\/07\/08\/boracay-island-keeps-rt-pcr-test-for-vaccinated-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Boracay Island to keep RT-PCR test for vaccinated tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Boracay still requires a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)<\/strong> test for all tourists regardless if vaccinated or not.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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According to an interview from the Philippine News Agency (PNA), the decision was announced by\u00a0 <\/span>Aklan Governor Florencio Miraflores<\/b> in response to avoid tampered vaccination cards and also fake COVID-19 test results. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In recent months, Boracay was in hot water due to travelers carrying forged documents of their RT-PCR tests. The event caused a huge problems for the locals, which resulted in an immediate investigation, and rigorous inspection. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"IMAGE from the Department of Tourism<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Though the I<\/strong>nter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) released a resolution <\/b>allowing fully vaccinated people to forego their RT-PCR test results in interzonal travel on July 2, the local government stand firm on their decision.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

“[W]e’ve decided to just retain in the meantime that all tourists, all arrivals in the island of Boracay should still present their RT-PCR test until such time that we can have a system of validating these vaccination cards,” said Miraflores.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat <\/b>supported the decision of the LGUs and clarified that the action will help to secure the safety of all tourists.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Ang importante is nag<\/i>-start\u00a0na tayo sa<\/i>\u00a0vaccination.\u00a0Ang sinabi naman ni<\/i>\u00a0governor\u00a0na<\/i>\u00a0once\u00a0ma-<\/i>perfect\u00a0na nila na walang mamemeke. Mas maganda nga ‘yon<\/i>\u00a0at least slow but sure (What’s important is to start the vaccination (for tourism workers). The governor said they would consider it once they perfect a verification system. For me it even better because at least that way, it’s slow but sure)” she said.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Furthermore, National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 Deputy Chief Implementer and testing czar Vince Dizon<\/b>, reminded the public that tampering or faking a vaccination card, a public document, is a crime.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: Philippine News Agency\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Written by Cedie Salido\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boracay still requires a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test for all tourists regardless if vaccinated or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[367,2148,3095,3191,3192,3193],"class_list":["post-15252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airlines","tag-boracay","tag-boracay-island","tag-rt-pcr","tag-vince-dizon","tag-inter-agency-task-force-for-the-management-of-emerging-infectious-diseases-iatf-eid","tag-aklan-governor-florencio-miraflores"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15252"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15264,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions\/15264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}