MANILA — The Philippines has expanded the list of COVID-19 vaccination certificates that travelers must have for entry into the country, Malacañang said on Friday.

The inter-agency task force on COVID-19, in a meeting on Thursday, accredited certificates from the following territories as proof of vaccination, which travelers can present for entry, quarantine and interzonal or intrazonal movement, said Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles.

• Argentina
• Brunei Darussalam
• Cambodia
• Chile
• Denmark
• Ecuador
• Indonesia
• Myanmar
• Papua New Guinea
• Peru
• Portugal
• Spain
• Azerbaijan
• Macau
• Syria
  

These are on top of other territories whose COVID-19 certificates were earlier approved by the COVID-19 task force, Nograles said in a press briefing.

The government mandated that only fully vaccinated foreign travelers will be allowed entry into the Philippines as part of efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Philippines in January fought a record surge in coronavirus infections driven by the highly infectious omicron variant. COVID-19 cases have since fallen below 3,000 a day.

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