{"id":267575,"date":"2020-09-03T06:27:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T10:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=267575"},"modified":"2020-09-03T06:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T10:27:51","slug":"palace-respects-malaysias-travel-ban-on-ph-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/03\/palace-respects-malaysias-travel-ban-on-ph-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace respects Malaysia\u2019s travel ban on PH citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248039\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/woman-in-white-top-and-denim-jeans-sitting-on-red-luggage-3597111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-248039\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/woman-in-white-top-and-denim-jeans-sitting-on-red-luggage-3597111-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/woman-in-white-top-and-denim-jeans-sitting-on-red-luggage-3597111-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/woman-in-white-top-and-denim-jeans-sitting-on-red-luggage-3597111-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/woman-in-white-top-and-denim-jeans-sitting-on-red-luggage-3597111-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/woman-in-white-top-and-denim-jeans-sitting-on-red-luggage-3597111.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malaysia imposed an entry ban on citizens of Philippines, Indonesia, and India starting September 7. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday said it respects the decision of Malaysia to ban the entry of Filipinos from entering the country citing the Philippines\u2019 number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said it is the \u201csovereign decision\u201d of Malaysia to determine who is allowed to enter the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not saying we\u2019re happy. We regret the decision but we respect the sovereign decision of Malaysia,\u201d he said in a virtual Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia imposed an entry ban on citizens of Philippines, Indonesia, and India starting September 7.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin earlier said Malaysia imposed the entry ban to curb the pandemic until the end of the year as the virus \u201cis still actively spreading across the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines has the highest number of Covid-19 cases in Southeast Asia with some 226,440 infections followed by Indonesia with a total of 180,646 cases as of September 2.<\/p>\n<p>Total cases in Southeast Asia crossed the 479,000 mark.<\/p>\n<p>India has nearly four million cases, the third highest in the world after the United States and Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 cases in the world surpassed 26 million on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Last July, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced that over 30 countries and territories across America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East have lifted travel restrictions for Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>Information regarding travel restrictions is subject to change without prior and sufficient public notice, the DFA said.<\/p>\n<p>The DFA advised all travelers to check with their airlines on advisories of Embassies or Consulates before departure or booking a ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday said it respects the decision of Malaysia to ban the entry of Filipinos from entering the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":248039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267577,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267575\/revisions\/267577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}