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2:49 pm on 15 August 2021, Sunday
The Bureau of Immigration has expressed readiness to implement the extended travel ban covering ten countries amid rising COVID-19 cases and the risk of the highly infectious Delta coronavirus variant.
Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente issued an advisory reiterating the latest directive from the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases on the extended travel ban which currently covers 10 countries.
Passengers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia are prohibited from entering the country until August 31.
Morente said they have circulated the resolution to airlines and other stakeholders. He said: "Airlines have been instructed not to board those coming from the said countries."
Foreign nationals coming from the ten countries and those who have traveled there in the last 14 days before their arrival to the Philippines shall be temporarily barred from entering the Philippines.
Those who merely transited or had a layover in the ten countries are not covered by the travel ban, the bureau added.
Filipinos coming from the ten countries under temporary travel ban that are arriving through repatriation efforts shall be allowed entry to the country, BI Ports Division Chief Carlos Capulong explained.
Filipinos coming home from the ten countries would be referred to the airport's one stop shop to undergo mandatory 14-day facility based quarantine and an RT-PCR COVID-19 test, Capulong added.