By Christine Fabro
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has added more regions listed in the pilot rollout of VaxCertPH, the country’s uniform digital vaccine certificate.
The said regions were Region 3 (Central Luzon), Region 4A (Mimaropa), Metro Cebu, and Region 11 (Davao Region).
In today’s (Sept. 25) Laging Handa public briefing, DICT Undersecretary Manny Caintic said the soft launch of VaxCertPH to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and other international travelers from Metro Manila and Baguio Cebu has received positive feedback from the public.
“Marami kaming nakuhang positive feedback, maraming natuwa na madali lang siyang gamitin lalong-lalo na kung ang mga records ninyo ay nandoon na, na-i-submit ng LGU [local government unit],” Caintic said.
As of Sept. 25, the department has already issued 138,000 vaccine certificates out of 225,000 requests nationwide.
“Patuloy ang aming pakikipagtulungan sa ating DILG [Department of the Interior and Local Government] at sa mga LGUs [local government units] at tuloy-tuloy po ang aming pag-train sa mga LGUs at pagtulong sa kanila sa pag-setup noong kanilang mga data rectification booth at saka iyong para din sa mga pagtulong sa mga taong hirap gumamit ng teknolohiya; pero online naman po ito,” he said.
Caintic added that the Philippine’s VaxCertPH is one of the few countries worldwide that began issuing its uniform COVID-19 vaccine certification, which was in accordance with the standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO).
However, he noted that some applicants failed to generate their vaccine certificates as their records were not found in the Vaccine Information Management System (VIMS).
“Hindi naman po ang system na ang problema, it’s really iyong manpower po talaga. So on the average across all the LGUs nag-a-average na po kami ng 80%. Dati-rati nasa mga 40% lang iyan,” Caintic said.
“Binibigyan natin ng 48 hours ang LGU na makapag-sumite ng mga datos ng nabakunahan. Marami naman po sa kanila ngayon, nakakapag-comply na po. So, 48 hours po usually nandoon na iyong record mo,” Caintic added. -rir
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