Under our protocols, we monitor health for 10 days from arrival, that is why the S-PaSS is still necessary,” said the governor. need it so they can monitor returning residents and visitors. “We have many municipalities in the province, we can only monitor arrivals of their returning residents through the S-PaSS. said in a phone interview that this also includes the retention of the S-PaSS system.ĭefensor explained that the retention was in line with national government guidelines but expounded that it was mainly for monitoring purposes. The city, while under Alert Level 3, got rid of restrictions including its curfew and liquor ban as the number of COVID cases started to decline in early February.īut Iloilo province, while loosening its restrictions on establishments, as well as scrapping the province-wide liquor ban, will retain its Alert Level 3 travel restrictions. Our economic activities need to take place now,” said Conlu. We need to balance the health and economy.
We are expecting to get to Alert Level 1. “If you observed, amid Alert Level 3, we loosened our restrictions a little bit and we are already heading into the new normal. Unvaccinated travelers will still need to show a negative result from their RT-PCR test taken 72 hours prior to their departure.Ĭonlu said that the city’s Alert Level 2 policy will focus on the balance of public health and economic aspects. In an interview with Aksyon Radyo Iloilo on Monday, Iloilo City COVID Team spokesperson Jeck Conlu said that fully-vaccinated travelers will only need to show their valid ID and vaccination cards upon check-in. It also serves as the contact tracing system of the government.
The S-PaSS is a travel management system developed by the Department of Science and Technology to facilitate local travel nationwide amid the pandemic. Treñas cited as reason the need to “revive the economy and tourism”. Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas on Sunday evening told Daily Guardian via text that starting today, the city government will no longer require travel approval through the national government’s Safe, Smart, and Swift Passage System (S-PaSS). Iloilo City will enforce different travel protocols compared to the provinces of Iloilo and Negros Occidental even if they are on Alert Level 2 starting today, March 1, 2022, in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The provinces of Iloilo and Negros Occidental will still require incoming passengers to register with the S-PaSS while Iloilo City has scrapped the requisite. A police officer guides passengers at the Iloilo airport in Cabatuan, Iloilo.
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