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Palace adviser backs proposed COVID-19 vaccine card expiry

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Barangay volunteers screen people entering Barangay 183 in Pasay City on Jan. 13, 2022. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File " src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/news/04/06/20220113-covid19-pasay-brgy-183-lockdown-jc-4.jpg"/><figcaption>Barangay volunteers screen people entering Barangay 183 in Pasay City on Jan. 13, 2022. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File </em></figcaption></figure></div><p><br/>MANILA — A Malacañang adviser on Wednesday supported a proposal to set expiration dates for COVID-19 vaccination cards to encourage more people to get booster shots. </p><p>The COVID-19 task force is waiting for experts&#x27; &quot;<a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/05/22/iatf-awaits-solid-recommendation-on-vax-card-expiry">solid recommendation</a>&quot; on the proposal, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III earlier said, citing the 9-month validity of vaccination cards in Singapore. </p><p>&quot;Siguro si Sec. Duque na will know what is best for our people but sa private sector, yan ang kinakampanya namin,&quot; said Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion. </p><p>(Perhaps Sec. Duque will know what is best for our people, but in the private sector, that is what we are campaigning in the private sector because)</p><p>&quot;We are concerned that the threat is real and we want to see every LGU and every city go down to Alert Level 1,&quot; he said in a public briefing. </p><p>He made the remark following a spike of new COVID-19 cases in some countries and the detection of the potentially more transmissible &quot;<a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/04/22/ph-monitors-reported-omicron-xe-variant-in-thailand">omicron XE</a>&quot; variant in Thailand. </p><p>&quot;Kung hindi pa nila kukunin ang booster, mas lalong tataas yung number of vaccines that will be expiring... We cannot allow the booster uptake below 10 percent,&quot; Concepcion said. </p><p>(If they will not get their booster, the number of vaccines that will be expiring will increase.) </p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1989265" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar"><em>Video from PTV </em></div><p>The official earlier said about <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/03/22/27-million-covid-vaccine-doses-to-expire-in-july-ofcl">27 million</a> COVID-19 jabs would expire by July. The Department of Health (DOH) and the National Task Force Against COVID-19 noted that many of these were other countries&#x27; donations.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/05/22/only-2-pct-of-covid-vaccines-wasted-officials-say">Only 2 pct of COVID vaccines wasted, officials say, fewer than UN average of 10 pct</a></li></ul><p>The Philippines has fully vaccinated at least 66.2 million people against COVID-19. Some 12.1 million have received booster shots, while 46.8 million others are eligible to get an additional jab, the DOH said on Tuesday.</p><p>Concepcion suggested that the vaccine card&#x27;s expiration should depend on when an individual finished their primary series. Aside from this, he also urged the public to get their boosters by June to prevent a COVID-19 surge driven by the election-related activities.</p><p>&quot;Sana, katulad nitong sa vaccine cards (expiration), depende sa when they took it... Karamihan ng kumuha ng early primary doses, bandang June, July, magwe-wane na yan kaya tamang-tama ang booster shots,&quot; said Concepcion. </p><p>&quot;Tingin ko dito, ang deadline ng booster shots dapat gawin bandang June, after elections,&quot; he added.</p><p>(I hope the vaccine cards&#x27; expiration will depend on when they took it. For most of the early primary doses, the protection will wane by June, July so people should take booster shots by then. I think the deadline for booster shots should be set in June after elections.) </p><p>COVID-19 vaccines available in the Philippines are expected to give protection, especially from severe disease, for a &quot;minimum of <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/18/22/how-good-is-your-covid-vaccine-booster-expert-cites-best-combos">6 months to one year</a>,&quot; the country&#x27;s Vaccine Expert Panel earlier said. <br/> </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/02/22/covid-19-booster-shots-needed-to-prevent-breakthrough-infection-expert">COVID-19 booster shots needed to prevent breakthrough infection: expert</a></li></ul><div class="infogram-embed" data-id="_/yFVE69R1WlSdqY3aCsBF" data-title="COVID-19 VACCINE TRACKER PH" data-type="interactive"> </div><script type="text/javascript">!function(e,i,n,s){var t='InfogramEmbeds',d=e.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement('script');o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src='https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js',d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,'infogram-async');</script>

A Malacañang adviser supported a proposal to set expiration dates for COVID-19 vaccination cards to encourage more people to get booster shots. 