The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said it is ready to implement travel restriction for passengers coming in from China if health authorities finally decide. BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco issued the statement as Covid-19 cases continue to soar in many provinces of China. Italy and many other...
Starts Dec. 14, 2022 While most parts of the world have opened their borders, Hong Kong has been taking it slowly as it moved from compulsory quarantine to three days of medical surveillance instead. This meant that inbound Hong Kong travelers need not quarantine but are not allowed to go inside...
CEBU CITY – Cebu has eased the travel restrictions for vaccinated travelers. Travelers, both foreigners and Filipinos, who have been fully vaccinated and administered with one booster shot, is no longer required to present RT-PCR tests when entering the province. For fully vaccinated travelers...
64387 Long-term travel restrictions are futile. That's the key lesson that governments haven't learned in two years of the pandemic, Capital A Berhad CEO Tony Fernandes lamented. A better and more sustainable approach would be to promote cost-effective policies such as massive and speedy...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is preparing for the influx of international passengers following the government’s decision to reopen the country to foreign tourists starting February 10. (Photo from Unsplash) “We are ready and we have the available manpower to address the expected increase in...
A Palace official has thanked the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) for its decision to ease international travel restrictions. Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion (Photo from Go Negosyo Facebook page)...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares It’s not the ideal time to do a long road trip but if you have to visit the family patriarch, it is the ideal way with today’s limited travel restrictions that require minimal travel documents. We opted to drive to Bacolod City from Quezon City weeks...
The Philippines will stick with its rule in allowing foreign travelers into the country amid the emergence of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) Sought for reaction on whether or not the country will enforce a Japan-like...
Fourteen countries are now under the country's red list from November 28 to December 15 following reports of cases of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Malacañang announced Sunday afternoon. PIXABAY/ MANILA BULLETIN In a statement, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said...
The Philippines has temporarily suspended international inbound flights from South Africa and six other countries with local cases or with the likelihood of occurrences of the new B.1.1.1529 variant of coronavirus (COVID-19) starting November 26 until December 15. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles...
The government will be allowing the entry of fully vaccinated foreign individuals from non-visa-required territories to the Philippines from December 1 to 15, 2021, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles announced. Nograles made the statement after the government's pandemic task force eased quarantine...
Metro Manila mayors will discuss if unvaccinated younger children against the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) will be subjected to travel restrictions, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said on Sunday, Nov. 14. This came after Año’s confirmation...
