{"id":53814,"date":"2020-03-01T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T02:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=53814"},"modified":"2022-05-26T09:58:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T01:58:42","slug":"task-force-imposes-temporary-travel-ban-to-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2020\/03\/01\/task-force-imposes-temporary-travel-ban-to-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Task Force Imposes Temporary Travel Ban to Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<strong> Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>(IATF-EID)<\/strong> \u00a0has issued a resolution on the <strong>temporary travel ban<\/strong> to<strong> South Korea<\/strong> due to the increasing cases of the <strong>corona virus<\/strong> disease or<strong> COVID-19.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the resolution, the task force imposed a temporary travel ban on Filipinos traveling to South Korea. The travel ban also covered foreigners coming from <strong>North Gyeongsang province<\/strong> as well as <strong>Daegu City<\/strong> and <strong>Cheongdo County.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Health Secretary Francisco Duque III mentioned in a press briefing last February 26 that they will be applying the same policy with Korea, in consistent to China, Hong Kong, and Macau.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialDOHgov\/posts\/3104373312907233<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Filipinos and their foreign spouse, children, Permanent Resident Visa holders, and holders of 9(e) Diplomat Visas were exempted from the travel ban.<\/p>\n<p>Health Secretary Francisco Duque III added\u00a0\u201cOnly permanent residents of South Korea, Filipinos leaving for study, and overseas Filipino workers returning for work will be allowed provided that they sign a written declaration acknowledging the risks involved, which will be complemented with a health advisory pamphlet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from <strong>Department of Justice, Department of Health, Department of Interior and Local Government, Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Tourism, Department of Information and Communications Technology,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong> Department of Transportation<\/strong>\u00a0signed the said resolution.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea has the largest number of COVID-19 cases outside China with more than 1, 170 cases with 11 deaths.\u00a0Most cases came from the\u00a0 &#8220;special care zones&#8221; Daegu City and Chaengdo County.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Source: Philippine News Agency\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.doh.gov.ph%2Fdoh-press-release%2Fdoh-dfa-bring-home-filipinos-from-M%2FV-diamond-princess%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3iShRqqKCzcJgqXjPP7qPfayzDDLd8qAHZ4Z288lCD7c-GjPeSG9k9KWk&amp;h=AT1eqcUWqp4J_f1NHOKLzCansz0ggPHwygHcGsbxUWePzUrPyUQNc7ZoHwUNp4t05ODN4sRO-cW-eHAD1RVcwfze7KdGDsnS7SLhBOocu-WeIiFXMUyK93QT-l_TrtbCmiLoHGomvRVRIawGCOrbY1lAhg2JRWOUz-FJtg7FJqsgFS7qHcpbrpRcOsJ4SVvykv17n151i63g-RdJsbo-GmB7wMVa45nkhIsWWnlz27236QqVRpsoZWO0eOoEn1mPlzCRGGcdu1ZI8IyjiEcahQnsfo1VfOFn7g9RNk9L9vc1TcC5NucVZvuMa_XCixhzPiu0mNXZwQVZRzmyUDZPHmfnAAT1FNf4-hMnfRRWLAMknAPjsCJEp0Kma2uf-E9tQtoKsMH5XNiS8qIBBt9mppjKkjZNj_zFP2my0ycsRdO6c_Y7JKpBGQ3sW1lnkhVHD1DdsUgFhitM1LejuYqtvTkJrVyLTynh5U2pgF2s831lsT5D8JI6sn1nDmBUm2YpHZppRl4spOOM-mte4dxisqkwn-JwqgVrDEZqJeOwZSYoWwtZHBzl3hlRnqc1uA6179bycEnj9N6EKJX7yrlQ-bEqRn5Uexov8o7MGIsQKD3XRXlfSXOj0JmCgdx-2t5MnB2o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF-EID)  has issued a resolution on the temporary travel ban to South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12382,12385,12768,12767],"class_list":["post-53814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-2019-corona-virus","tag-corona-virus","tag-ph-travel-ban-in-korea","tag-travel-ban-in-korea"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/manila-ninoy-aquino-international-airport-e1489995105731.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65294,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53814\/revisions\/65294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}