The government on Friday rolled out a virtual identification system aimed at ensuring easier passage through checkpoints for frontliners and other exempted individuals from the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).

Cabinet Secretary Karlo Alexei Nograles, spokesman of the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, said frontliners would be given QR codes that would be scanned whenever they pass through control points.

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