{"id":270779,"date":"2020-10-04T07:09:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T11:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=270779"},"modified":"2020-10-04T07:09:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T11:09:24","slug":"roque-spends-time-off-in-recently-reopened-boracay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/04\/roque-spends-time-off-in-recently-reopened-boracay\/","title":{"rendered":"Roque spends time off in recently reopened Boracay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v8.0\" nonce=\"m2vBXd38\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HarryRoque\/posts\/1311308252397003\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HarryRoque\/posts\/1311308252397003\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>ang aking masayang lugar mula noon, hanggang ngayon<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HarryRoque\/\">Harry Roque<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HarryRoque\/posts\/1311308252397003\">Sunday, October 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 It looks like Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque is enjoying his weekend in the recently-reopened Boracay Island.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday afternoon, Roque shared a photo of himself sitting by the shore of the famous beach island on his official Facebook account.<\/p>\n<p>The photo was captioned: \u201c<em>Ang aking masayang lugar mula noon, hanggang ngayon<\/em>\u00a0(My happy place from then until now).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, Roque said he will hold his regular Palace press briefing from Boracay to help attract more tourists.<\/p>\n<p>He said President Rodrigo Duterte will not yet be visiting Boracay because of his busy schedule.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said the President may visit the top tourist destination \u201cin the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roque earlier said the reopening of Boracay would support tourism industry workers and businesses amid the prevailing coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said the resumption of tourism businesses signals the &#8220;gathering momentum for domestic tourism all over the country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Boracay started welcoming tourists last Oct. 1 after months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, all travelers including those below 21 and above 60 years old are allowed to enter the island except for those with underlying medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Travelers must also undergo reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests that must be taken at least 48 hours prior to departure.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmed booking in a Department of Tourism (DOT)-accredited accommodation establishment, air tickets, and the negative test results should be submitted online, through http:\/\/aklan.gov.ph, for the approval of the Aklan provincial government. Each visitor who is cleared to travel to the island will then be issued a unique personal QR code for monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>There are around 204 Boracay hotels allowed to operate under Boracay&#8217;s new normal, representing some 4,474 rooms.<\/p>\n<p>DOT-accredited hotels each have a designated health and safety officer who will call the Boracay Covid Hotline number 152 should any of the guests show symptoms of the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ang aking masayang lugar mula noon, hanggang ngayon Posted by Harry Roque on&nbsp;Sunday, October 4, 2020 &nbsp; MANILA\u00a0\u2013 It looks &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":270780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270779","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\/270779","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=270779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270781,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270779\/revisions\/270781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}