MANILA, March 15 -- The government has so far completed the printing of over 60 percent of the physical copies of the national identification cards (IDs), according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

During the Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon briefing on Friday, Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) Registry Office Deputy National Statistician Fred Sollesta said the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has so far printed 54 million physical national ID cards.

Of the total, 50 million were already delivered by the Philippine Post Office (PhilPost).

"Iyong printing natin sa physical card ay nasa BSP iyon, so tuluy-tuloy naman iyong printing natin. Iyon lang, iyong capacity natin to print ay nasa 80,000 per day 'no. And when we start...