As another worldwide threat was reported due to Omicron variant, the Philippines has imposed travel restrictions on several countries as it updated its "red list" effective November 28.
The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF) considered the countries with high-risk and on the red list are: Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy.
Already on the red list are South Africa, Botswana, Nambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Mozambique.
A red list or areas with high risk for COVID-19 will be updated after December 15.
Acting presidential spokesperson Karlo Nograles announced that "inbound international travel of all persons, regardless of vaccination status, coming from or who have been to red list countries/jurisdictions/territories within the last 14 days prior to arrival to any port of the Philippines shall be allowed."
Only Filipinos returning to the country via government-initiated repatriation and so-called Bayanihan (Cooperation) flights will be allowed entry subject to the prevailing entry, testing, and quarantine protocols for red list countries/jurisdictions/territories.
Passengers already in transit and all those who have been to the red list countries/territories/jurisdictions within 14 days immediately preceding arrival to the Philippines and who arrive before 12:01 a.m. of November 30 will not be subject to restrictions.
They will undergo facility-based quarantine for 14 days with testing on the seventh day, with day 1 being the date of arrival, notwithstanding a negative reverse transaction-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) result.
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