, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman.
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases approved the extension of the travel ban.The IATF likewise directed its technical working group to further study and give its recommendations on the proper testing and quarantine protocols for incoming travelers from the said countries as well as other nations considered as “high risk” for COVID-19, Roque said.
The government earlier imposed these restrictions to prevent the entry of the COVID-19 double-mutant variant first detected in India.or B.1.617 have been detected in the country. All were returning overseas Filipinos and no local case nor community transmission have been found in the Philippines.