OFWs to Use Yellow Cards As Temporary Vaccine Card
The Philippine Star|August 13, 2021
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will be using government-issued “yellow cards” while the government works on a unified vaccine card, an official of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) said on Wednesday, citing difficulties in local governments’ compliance and poor regional coverage of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT).
Neil Jayson Servallos
OFWs to Use Yellow Cards As Temporary Vaccine Card

Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said the government was in the meantime implementing Bureau of Quarantine-issued yellow cards, while working on a uniform digital vaccination card equipped with a quick response (QR) code.

The rollout of the digital vaccination cards was snagged due to the poor uploading of data by local government units (LGUs), an issue linked by Nograles to the poor regional presence of the DICT, which is in charge of the program.

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