BOAC, Marinduque (PIA) -- League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) president and Marinduque governor Presbitero Velasco, Jr. clarifies that provinces still have jurisdiction on whether they will impose testing requirements for interzonal travellers, after the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases published Resolution 124-B that states COVID testing is not required for fully vaccinated individuals.

On a local news program that aired on July 8, Governor Velasco said that the IATF Resolution 124-B does not nullify the importance of testing requirements, but instead states that vaccination cards or certificates of quarantine completion can serve as sufficient alternatives to it.

"I carefully studied the resolution, and written on Paragraph D, it states that vaccination cards issued by accredited establishments or the certificate of quarantine completion from Bureau of Quarantine ‘can be’ sufficient alternatives to testing," he said.