Beginning 8 November
23 October 2021
The National Task Force for Emerging and Infectious Diseases (NTF-IATF) will pilot a test to allow vaccinated passenger from North America to do away with quarantine restrictions beginning November 8 as the United States lift COVID-19 travel restrictions for fully vaccinated international visitors.
New entry restrictions will expand to other green and yellow listed countries beginning November 15.
Arriving passengers will no longer be required to book quarantine hotels but still be subject to RT-PCR testing after arrival into the country.
Philippine Airlines, Inc. (PAL) earlier proposed to pilot test a “no facility quarantine protocol” for vaccinated passengers from North America.
The policy will cover “North American vaccinated passengers arriving in the Philippines and Filipinos fully vaccinated in the Philippines who traveled to North America and are returning to the country,” PAL Senior Vice-President for Strategy Dexter C. Lee said.
The proposal was adopted by IATF Technical Working Group after the National Capital Region (NCR) recorded a 90% vaccination rate against covid19, which resulted to downward trend on infections.
The coronavirus reproduction number in the NCR has dropped to 0.46 from 0.59 last week, the OCTA Research Group reported Friday.
The coronavirus reproduction number also dropped to 0.46 from 0.59 last week, according to OCTA.
The propose policy however will still exclude non-Filipinos on non-essential travel as restrictions on entry of foreigners other than Filipino spouses and family members, residents, and diplomats remained in place .
The new travel restrictions will be announce next week.
kids under 12year old are exempted for this? because kids under 12yrs old doesnt have vaccine yet so i hope kids can be exempted thank you
ReplyDeletesent you an email on this. could you share your source of info? a reply is highly appreciated.
DeleteThe source of information is TWG of the IATF. Decision on this matter was deferred until next week. You cannot find Official approval of this recommendation as of yet, as it was not included in the latest IATF Resolution. Please contact your airline for latest travel advisory to the Philippines.
DeleteAwesome! I really appreciate the reply.
DeleteChildren are exempted from vaccination requirements.
ReplyDeleteMeaning, not for US alone, but green and yellow listed countries.
ReplyDeleteWhen will be this announced?thanks for the reply
ReplyDeleteIs this official yet or another fake news?
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