Ph names new 'green' territories, shorter quarantine

By Nidz Godino

INBOUND travelers from "green" territories and who are fully vaccinated only need to go through  seven-day quarantine and an RT-PCR test  in a government-accredited facility on their fifth day, with their day of arrival already counted as the first day. 

Government's pandemic task force has updated its list of "green" or low-risk territories, allowing even more vaccinated travelers to go through  shorter quarantine period of seven days upon arrival in the Philippines.  

Unvaccinated travelers are typically required to undergo 14-day quarantine in the Philippines. 

Several entries which were included in the original list of "green" or low-risk territories first released by the task force on June 30 were removed from  updated version. The removed territories include Burundi, Liberia, Malawi, Morrocco, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Senegal, and Zimbabwe. 

Additional  areas such as Azerbaijan, Barbados, Bermuda, Comoros, Curacao, Gabon, Liechtenstein, Mali, North Macedonia, and Romania were newly classified as low-risk.

Government  released the list as Department of Health confirmed local transmissions of Delta variant of the coronavirus, against which travel ban covering seven countries has been imposed.

Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente on July 1 explained that this covers fully vaccinated passengers who stayed solely in 57 countries within the past 14 days before their arrival in the country. 

Morente said same arrival protocol applies to passengers who were fully vaccinated in the Philippines.

Updated list of 'green' territories includes Albania,American Samoa,Anguilla,Antigua and Barbuda,Australia,Azerbaijan,Barbados,Benin,Bermuda, British Virgin Islands,Brunei,Burkina Faso,,Cayman Islands,Chad, China,Comoros,Cote d' Ivoire (Ivory Coast),Curacao,Dominica,Eswatini, Falkland Islands, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Grenada, Hong Kong, Iceland, Isle of Man, Israel, Laos, Liechtenstein, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Federated States of Micronesia, Montserrat, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Romania, Saba (Special Municipality of the Kingdom of Netherlands), Saint Barthelemy, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Singapore, Saint Eustatius, South Korea, Taiwan, Togo, Turks and Caicos Islands (UK) and Vietnam. 

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