Bahrain not included in Philippines’ travel ban
TDT | Manama
The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com
Bahrain is not included in the list of 10 countries where travellers coming from them are banned from entering the Philippines.
This comes as the Philippines decided to extend a ban on travellers from India and nine other countries until the end of August because of concerns posed by the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus.
The travel ban, which was first imposed on April 27, has been rolled over several times and expanded to include: India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the UAE.
All arriving passengers coming from, or who have been to the travel-restricted countries within the last 14 days shall not be allowed entry into the Philippines.
Arriving Filipinos, under the repatriation programme of the Philippine government, coming from the travel-restricted countries shall undergo an absolute 14-day facility-based quarantine and be required a negative Reverse transcription-polymerase Chain Reaction (RTPCR) result.
Those who: (a) transited or who have a mere lay-over at the airport of travel-restricted countries (lay-over only at the airport and with no immigration admission at said countries; and (b) not coming from these countries may be allowed entry, provided they are authorised to enter the country thru relevant resolutions of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) and subjected to existing testing and quarantine protocols issued by the Department of Health.
Health and quarantine protocols for government and non-government repatriations and for vaccinated and non-vaccinated passengers from Green countries shall be observed.
Authorities in the Philippines are scrambling to contain a jump in coronavirus cases to a four-month high, with infections staying above the 12,000 mark since last week, and hospitals in some areas nearing capacity.
President Rodrigo Duterte approved the recommendation of the coronavirus task force to extend the travel restrictions from Aug. 16 to Aug. 31.
The Manila capital region, an urban sprawl of 16 cities that is home to 13 million people, remains under a strict lockdown to contain the spread of Delta, while the government ramps up its vaccination drive.
With about 11% of the country’s 110 million people fully immunised, millions remain highly vulnerable to COVID-1
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