{"id":56415,"date":"2020-07-09T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T02:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=56415"},"modified":"2020-07-09T12:14:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T04:14:34","slug":"non-essential-travel-now-allowed-for-filipinos-as-iatf-lifts-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2020\/07\/09\/non-essential-travel-now-allowed-for-filipinos-as-iatf-lifts-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Essential Travel Now Allowed for Filipinos as IATF Lifts Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Last July 7, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque has announced\u00a0that the\u00a0Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID)<strong> lifted the ban on non-essential travel<\/strong> of Filipinos across the country and abroad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56453\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/travelban-e1594265254530.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"801\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">IMAGE \/ PCOO official Twitter account<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">IATF has issued <strong>Resolution No. 52<\/strong> on July 6, which states that suspension of non-essential travel by Filipinos as well as all travel restrictions relative to outbound travel of Filipinos pursuant to previous IATF Resolutions are lifted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To be allowed to foreign travel, Filipinos have to fulfill the following conditions indicated in the resolution:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Submission of confirmed round-trip tickets for those traveling on tourist visas<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Adequate travel and health insurance to cover rebooking and accommodation expenses if stranded, and hospitalization in case of infection, in such amount as may be determined by the Department of Tourism<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Allowed entry by destination country in accordance with their travel, health, and quarantine restrictions<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Execution of a <em>Declaration\u00a0<\/em>acknowledging the risks involved in traveling, including risk of delay in their return trip, to be provided for in the check-in counters by the airlines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Upon return, Filipino travelers shall follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.covid19.gov.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Final-NTF-Order-No-2-Operational-Guidelines-on-Management-of-LSIs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Guidelines of Returning Overseas Filipino<\/a>s of the National Task Force.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53693\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/NAIA_PhilippinePrimer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/NAIA_PhilippinePrimer.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/NAIA_PhilippinePrimer-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/NAIA_PhilippinePrimer-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Before this, only Filipinos who are overseas workers, residents of the countries they wish to travel, or leaving the country for other reasons deemed as essential were allowed to travel abroad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As of yesterday&#8217;s Department of Health COVID-19 Case Bulletin (July 8), there is a total of <strong>50,359 COVID-19 cases in the Philippines<\/strong> with 36,457 being active cases. The total number of recoveries stands at 12,588 while deaths amount to 1,314.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialgazette.gov.ph\/downloads\/2020\/07jul\/20200706-IATF-RESOLUTION-NO-52.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">officialgazette.gov.ph<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\/articles\/1108190\" target=\"_blank\">pna.gov.ph<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Featured image grabbed from PCOO&#8217;s official Twitter account<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque has announced that the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) lifted the ban on non-essential travel of Filipinos across the country and abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12848,13667,13125,13666,13665,13664],"class_list":["post-56415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-travel-ban","tag-iatf","tag-iatf-resolution-no-52","tag-iatf-eid","tag-non-essential-travel"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/travelban-e1594265649207.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56415","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=56415"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56458,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56415\/revisions\/56458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}