Manila Bulletin
Travel authority, medical certificate no longer required for travel -- DILG
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) announced that travelers are no longer required to present a travel authority from the Philippine National Police (PNP) or a medical certificate from their local government unit (LGU).
This change follows the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID)'s approval of harmonized national travel protocols for land, air, and sea transportation.
The new protocols, approved through IATF-MEID Resolution No. 101, were developed by the DILG in collaboration with various local government leagues and the PNP.
All LGUs nationwide are directed to adhere to these streamlined regulations.
While COVID-19 testing is generally not mandatory for domestic travel, destination LGUs may still require it.
If a test is mandated by the destination LGU, only a Reverse-Transcription - Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test will be accepted, with no other types of tests permitted.
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