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PH allows entry of foreign nationals beginning May 1

Philippines back to old travel status quo – Nograles Christina Mendez © Michael Varcas, file Philippines back to old travel status quo – Nograles MANILA, Philippines — The travel restriction covering 36 countries with recorded cases of new variants of COVID-19 will be lifted effective tomorrow, Malacañang said yesterday. “On Feb. 1, we will go back to our old status quo before we even implemented the travel restrictions,” Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said over dzMM radio. The countries covered by existing travel restrictions are Austria, Denmark, Ire...

Foreign tourists are still barred from entering the Philippines amid the coronavirus pandemic, Malacañang clarified Friday.

(ALI VICOY / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) The conditions imposed on inbound foreign passengers and approved by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) will commence on February 1, 2021 amid the government’s intensified efforts to curb the spread of new coronavirus variants in the country. “Arriving foreign nationals should have valid and existing visas at the time of entry, except for those qualified under the Balikbayan program under Republic Act No. 6768, the Act Instituting the Balikbayan Program,” Presidential spokesman Harry Roque sa...

January 29, 2021 | 7:19 pm Font Size PHILSTAR Malacanang on Friday said that the government’s task force against the coronavirus will relax travel curbs on foreigners coming from more than 30 countries that have detected cases of the more contagious British variant of the coronavirus starting Feb. 1. Last year foreigners coming or transiting from countries with confirmed cases of the British coronavirus variant were barred from entering the country. The list, which includes the United States, China, Japan, and Australia, was expanded to more than 30 countries. The new rules cove...