MANILA – Isinali na rin ng pamahalaan ng Pilipinas ang Estados Unidos sa listahan ng mga bansang pinapatawan ng travel ban dahil sa banta ng bagong variant ng COVID-19 virus.
Nitong araw nang aprubahan ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang joint recommendation ng DOH at DFA para masali ang Amerika sa mga pinapatawan ng travel restriction.
“The Office of the President, upon the joint recommendation of the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), included the United States of America (US) as among the countries subject to travel restrictions,” batay sa ipinadalang mensahe ni Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque.
Magsisimulang ipatupad ang travel ban mula sa mga biyahero ng US pagdating 12:01 ng umaga ng January 3, araw ng Linggo; at tatagal nang hanggang January 15.
Kabilang sa mga pagbabawalan munang pumasok ng Pilipinas ang foreign travelers na may direktang flight mula Amerika, o dumaan sa bansa sa nakalipas na 14 na araw.
Tanging mga pasahero, kabilang na ang mga Filipino citizens, na galing o dumaan ng Amerika, na kasalukuyan nang bumibiyahe at inaasahang darating bago mag-January 3 lang ang papayagan makapasok ng bansa.
“However, they shall be required to undergo an absolute facility-based 14-day quarantine period, even if they obtain a negative RT-PCR test result.”
Ang mga Pilipinong pasahero naman na magta-transiting o dadaan sa mga bansa na una nang pinatawan ng travel ban ay papayagan nang pumasok ng Pilipinas basta’t matukoy na nasa loob lang sila ng airport ng pinanggalingang bansa bago bumiyahe.
Hindi na raw sila ima-mandato ng 14 day quarantine pagdating dito, basta’t negative sa RT-PCR test.
“All passengers, Filipinos or foreigners alike, merely transiting through any of the countries covered by the Memorandum of the Executive Secretary, dated 29 December 2020, and other succeeding memos, shall not be deemed as having come from or having been to that country, provided the passengers stayed in the airport the whole time and they were not cleared for entry by the immigration authorities of the said country covered by our travel restrictions.”
Habang ang mga transiting foreign passengers na binigyan ng clearance for entry sa mga bansang sakop ng travel ban ay hindi pwedeng pumasok ng bansa.
“Transiting foreign passengers who left the airport or were cleared for entry into the country covered by our travel restrictions shall be prohibited from entering the Philippines.”
“Transiting Filipino citizens who left the airport or were cleared for entry into the country covered by our travel restrictions shall be allowed to enter the Philippines. However, they shall be required to undergo an absolute facility-based 14-day quarantine period, even if they obtain a negative RT-PCR test result.”
