{"id":279781,"date":"2020-12-27T04:59:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T09:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=279781"},"modified":"2020-12-27T04:59:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T09:59:37","slug":"travel-ban-mulled-on-countries-with-transmission-of-new-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/12\/27\/travel-ban-mulled-on-countries-with-transmission-of-new-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel ban mulled on countries with transmission of new strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_259948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259948\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NAIA_TERMINAL_ONE_CHECK-IN_HALL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-259948\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NAIA_TERMINAL_ONE_CHECK-IN_HALL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NAIA_TERMINAL_ONE_CHECK-IN_HALL.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NAIA_TERMINAL_ONE_CHECK-IN_HALL-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NAIA_TERMINAL_ONE_CHECK-IN_HALL-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NAIA_TERMINAL_ONE_CHECK-IN_HALL-1024x535.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Terminal 1 check-in hall in 2015, post-renovation (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=47655768\">Photo by Department of Transportation and Communications (Philippines)\/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Travel restrictions would be considered as soon as a country reports community transmission of the new variant of SARS-COV-2, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The DOH clarified that the ban can be considered only when transmission of the new variant is at the community level in the originating country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease note the recommendations presented refer to countries\/areas apart from the UK that have and will report the UK new variant,&#8221; the DOH said in an advisory. The UK has\u00a0reported a new variant of the SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, it said a strict mandatory 14-day quarantine would be imposed for travelers coming from countries that initially reported the new variant, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Per our experts, as more and more countries report the detection of UK new variant, travel restrictions will be unsustainable. So we will mandate the 14-day quarantine regardless of test results. And part of which is increasing our capacities for bio\/genomic surveillance,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\/articles\/1125723\">President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday night extended for another two weeks the travel ban\u00a0<\/a>for flights coming from the UK. Initially, the travel ban began last Dec. 24 and was supposed to end on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte made the decision upon the recommendation of Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque during a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) and infectious diseases experts.<\/p>\n<p>According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the\u00a0variant strain has been predicted to potentially be more rapidly transmissible than other circulating strains of SARS-CoV-2.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Travel restrictions would be considered as soon as a country reports community transmission of the new variant of SARS-COV-2, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":259948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279781","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=279781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279782,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279781\/revisions\/279782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}