CEBU CITY – Councilman Dave Tumulak has warned the public against unscrupulous persons peddling fake vaccination cards to be used as travel or work requirements.
Tumulak said carrying a fake
vaccination card would not serve a purpose because authorities can still find
out the authenticity of the document that only the government can issue. He
stressed that faking the inoculation document will not
help its holder and his family from being protected against Covid-19.
“It is better that every LGU (local
government unit) has to introduce security features like unique QR code of
their vaccination cards issued to their vaccinees in order to avoid it being
counterfeited by unscrupulous individuals,” Tumulak told the Philippine News
Agency.
The QR code, he said, will determine
the name of the vaccinee, the vaccine brand administered, the date and time
injected, and the date of registration.
To achieve a genuine figure of
population protection and communal immunity against Covid-19, Tumulak said
authorities must also be vigilant against the production of fake vaccination
cards which presents a possibility to be patronized by those who do not want to
be inoculated.
He said the police recently arrested
Clifford Susana Arcilla, 46, of Talamban village, for selling vaccination
cards. Tumulak said he coordinated with Mandaue City Administrator Ed Ybañez to
verify the lot number written on the vaccination card found in Arcilla’s
possession as it belongs to Mandaue City’s inoculation rollout.
The Mandaue City government, he said,
is still investigating as to the owner of the vaccination card or the vaccine
lot number. Arcilla will be charged with violation of falsification of
public documents under Article 172 of the Revised Penal Code. (John Rey
Saavedra)
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