The Department of Health (DOH) and the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on Emerging Infectious Diseases plan to convene and review Covid-19 protocols in light of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) putting an end to the Covid-19 global health emergency.
Closing the country’s borders is not needed even though the Philippines recently reported its first case of monkeypox, Department of Health (DOH) officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said.
Alarmed by the spread of monkeypox in at least 75 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that the viral disease is a public health emergency of international concern, as more than 16,000 cases have been reported outside the central and western African regions where the disease is endemic.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is still not supporting the mandatory vaccination against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and the reimplementation of the face shield policy amid the rising threat of the more infectious Omicron variant.
Travelers who wish to acquire an internationally recognized proof of their Covid-19 vaccination instead of their local vaccination cards can get one from the Bureau of Quarantine (BOQ).