The Commission on Elections says Filipinos do not need to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or negative RT-PCR test results to cast their votes.
"We're not going to require [vaccination] cards, RT-PCR test results," Comelec director and spokesperson James Jimenez said during a virtual meeting with CNN Philippines and BusinessMirror officers and staff on Saturday.
As of July, Jimenez said 60.46 million Filipinos are already registered for the 2022 general elections. He said the poll body is on track to record 62 million registered voters.Jimenez also said every voting center will have a health screening. Comelec will also cooperate with the Inter-Agency Task Force for contact tracing, he added.
Jimenez also hopes the IATF would consider election as essential activity so Filipinos could smoothly go to their polling precinct regardless of quarantine status.Jimenez said Comelec and the Department of Education are still discussing the testing of teachers who will man voting precincts.
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