Valtrace

The city government welcomed the first batch of DILG contact tracers during a special orientation and training held in Valenzuela People's Park on October 20. The 226 newly hired contact tracers were trained in proper disease surveillance and contact tracing, handling data privacy and the use of the ValTrace App – Valenzuela's newest addition to its contact tracing platform utilizing the use of QR codes and location history.[1]

The government of Valenzuela, together with Mayor Rex Gatchalian, announced the upcoming use of Valtrace in the city effective November 16, 2020

laws and guidelines have also been placed to regulate the system as it follows its Role to Provide Contact Tracing under Ordinance No. 783 (ValTrace Application Ordinance) Under the ordinance, covered establishments must register with the system, scan the QR codes of all their customers and forward their customers' information to the local government after 24 hours of being offline from the system, among others.

Failure to comply will merit a ₱5,000, ₱10,000, or ₱15,000 fine, or the revocation of their business permit on the first, second, and third offense, respectively.

Any person who will provide false information about the application or will let another person use their personal QR will also be fined ₱1,000, ₱3,000, and ₱5,000 for the first, second, and third offense, respectively.[2]

A shopper using Valtrace

Valtrace is slowly being used in the city and manual contact tracing forms can still be used.

Valtrace has been fully implemented in Valenzuela with manual contact tracing slowly being removed from establishments in the city.

The city governments of Pasig and Valenzuela work hand to hand in streamlining solutions to help stop the spread of COVID-19 by interconnecting their systems and ensuring that the contact tracing efforts of their local governments will not go into waste. Under the agreement, Valenzuela's ValTrace App and Pasig's PasigPass will be integrated to ensure that both cities will have a more effective and efficient measures to contain the pandemic – that is, by being able to use one's ValTrace QR code to enter Pasig's establishments and vice versa.[3] The QR codes for both cities can be used starting December 7, 2020.

Both PasigPass and Valtrace can now be used on both cities on Pasig and Valenzuela.

The city of Valenzuela has been awarded with the Digital Governance Awards or DGA 2020 on its Paspas Permit and Valtrace contact tracing platform for its ease of accessibility and access.The Digital Governance Awards or DGA 2020 is a joint project of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP). DGA 2020 recognizes local government units for its revolutionary ICT initiatives in the delivery of public services.[4]

ValTrace App has been integrated with Antipolo's Bantay COVID-19 App – manifesting a continuous expansion through linkages with other local government units toward the same goal of effective contact tracing.[5] In the following days, Pasig also signed an interconnectivity agreement with Antipolo with their contact tracing platforms.

VCVAX is a Sub-Program of Valtrace for vaccine registration and distribution.this sub program aims to provide Valenzuelanos with free

Covid-19 Vaccines from Oxford–AstraZeneca,and plans to Vaccinate 70% of the City's Population.Registration for the program is located in the

Valtrace Website[6] and open for Ages 18 and above.