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Ejercito eyes scrapping e-travel passes amid WHO's declaration on COVID status

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Sherrie Ann Torres, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Security before the immigration counters check international passengers" passport="" and="" boarding="" pass="" at="" NAIA="" Terminal="" Mark="" ABS-CBN="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/news/05/08/20230424-airline-digitalization-naia-1md_6996-md.jpg"/><figcaption>Security before the immigration counters check international passengers&#x27; passport and boarding pass at NAIA Terminal 3. 📷: <em>Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA -- For Senator JV Ejercito, it&#x27;s high time for the government to get rid of its existing electronic travel card or e-travel requirement to travelers.</p><p>He said that while personal care and continuous observance of health and safety protocol must still be followed, the requirement should have been scrapped a long time ago.</p><p>“Noon pa dapat yan ini-scrap, dapat madali lang basta madali lang kung mayroon tayong vaccine card. I travelled already to and from other places after pandemic. Hindi na nga ako hiningan ng vaccine card eh,” Ejercito said.</p><p>He made the remark days after the World Health Organization announced that it is lifting the world health emergency status on COVID-19. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/05/23/covid-no-longer-a-global-health-emergency-who">COVID no longer a global health emergency: WHO</a></li></ul><p>&quot;As long as there is proof of vaccine, I think that should be enough already. Kasi, &#x27;yung nangyayari sa airport natin ano? Ang haba na nga ng pila sa immigration, mayroon pang pila... for the e-health pass or e-pass,” the senator said.</p><p>He added that he even almost got left behind by his flight to Europe because of the e-pass.</p><p>Ejercito also dismissed the need to maintain the declaration of public emergencies due to COVID considering the already controlled situation.</p><p>But in contrast to that, he said there is still a need to continue the information drive to encourage people to receive not only COVID vaccines but other ones too designed to fight various diseases.</p><p>For Ejercito, chairman of the Senate committee on health and demography, the most pressing need today is to improve the country’s health facilities.</p><p>RELATED VIDEO:</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sg6d8V2VRPU?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

For Senator JV Ejercito, it's high time for the government to get rid of its existing electronic travel card or e-travel requirement to travelers.

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Ejercito eyes scrapping e-travel passes amid WHO's declaration on COVID status

Sherrie Ann Torres,

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Published May 08, 2023 06:07 PM PHT

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