Publisher : China News Network / https://www.minhangshi.com/news_8815175.html / Direct translation
On 16 October 2020, the Office of the President of the Philippines announced that the country’s Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) will lift the ban on outbound travel by Philippine citizens on 21 October 2020. Affected by the covid epidemic, the Philippines has banned citizens from non-essential travel abroad since July.
The spokesperson of the President of the Philippines Harry Locke said that Filipinos planning to travel abroad must have sufficient travel and medical insurance. They must also submit a confirmed round-trip ticket, and a report of negative nucleic acid test 24 hours before departure, and submit a statement on on their outbound travel risks.
Locke stated that Filipinos going overseas must also follow the Philippine National Task Force (NTF) policy on the fight against covid that is imposed on returning overseas Filipinos.
On the same day, Locke announced that the IATF will allow the age limit for shopping residents to be relaxed from 21 to 60 to 15 to 65, saying this is part of the government's economic revitalization.
On the same day, the Philippine Ministry of Health announced that 3139 new covid cases have been confirmed and 50354 cases are in the course of the disease. A total of 351,750 cases were confirmed in the Philippines, 294,865 recovered, and 6531 died.
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