{"id":279489,"date":"2020-12-22T21:20:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T02:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=279489"},"modified":"2020-12-22T21:20:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T02:20:02","slug":"inbound-travel-from-uk-suspended-starting-dec-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/12\/22\/inbound-travel-from-uk-suspended-starting-dec-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Inbound travel from UK suspended starting Dec. 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_276496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276496\" style=\"width: 1734px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Worried-about-COVID-risk-on-a-flight-Here\u2019s-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself-\u2014-and-how-airlines-can-step-up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-276496\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Worried-about-COVID-risk-on-a-flight-Here\u2019s-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself-\u2014-and-how-airlines-can-step-up.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1734\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Worried-about-COVID-risk-on-a-flight-Here\u2019s-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself-\u2014-and-how-airlines-can-step-up.jpg 1734w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Worried-about-COVID-risk-on-a-flight-Here\u2019s-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself-\u2014-and-how-airlines-can-step-up-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Worried-about-COVID-risk-on-a-flight-Here\u2019s-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself-\u2014-and-how-airlines-can-step-up-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Worried-about-COVID-risk-on-a-flight-Here\u2019s-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself-\u2014-and-how-airlines-can-step-up-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1734px) 100vw, 1734px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-276496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers coming from or with travel history from the UK who are already in transit to the country, provided that they arrive before 12:01 a.m. of December 24, will not be subject to the restriction but will be required to undergo mandatory completion of the 14-day quarantine at the Athlete\u2019s Village in New Clark City regardless of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Following reports of a newly-detected variant of the SARS-CoV-2 spreading in the United Kingdom (UK), the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has recommended restrictions on inbound travel from the UK from December 24 to December 31 this year.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release on Wednesday, the Department of Health said the measure also seeks to curb the anticipated increase in coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases during the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>With President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s approval and upon the signing of IATF-EID Resolution 90 dated December 22, all flights from the UK will be temporarily suspended and all passengers coming from or transiting through the UK, including those with a history of travel to the UK within 14 days before arriving in the Philippines, are temporarily restricted from entering the country.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers coming from or with travel history from the UK who are already in transit to the country, provided that they arrive before 12:01 a.m. of December 24, will not be subject to the restriction but will be required to undergo mandatory completion of the 14-day quarantine at the Athlete\u2019s Village in New Clark City regardless of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results.<\/p>\n<p>Outbound passengers will be allowed to travel to the UK provided they adhere to the exit protocols of the IATF-EID being implemented by the Bureau of Immigration.\u00a0<em><strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Following reports of a newly-detected variant of the SARS-CoV-2 spreading in the United Kingdom (UK), the Inter-Agency Task Force &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":276496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279489","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=279489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279490,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279489\/revisions\/279490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}