The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said the government has extended anew the travel ban for travelers coming from 10 countries to August 15 in a bid to effectively control and minimize the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant of Corona Virus-19.
BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said airline companies have been notified not to bring in temporarily passengers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
He said that passengers from the said countries will be denied entry and sent back immediately to their port of origin.
But Morente said he is hopeful that the travel restriction will ease before the end of the year.
He based his optimistic projection to the stepped-up vaccination drive worldwide including the Philippines.