(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The Philippines’ travel ban on India and other 10 countries will be extended to August 15 and the Manila quarantine will be upgraded again
China News Agency, Manila, July 30 (Reporter Guan Xiangdong) On July 30 local time, the spokesperson of the President of the Philippines Harry Rock issued a statement that President Duterte based ), decided to continue to ban passengers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. The travel ban on the above 10 countries will be extended from August 1 to 2021. August 15th.
On the same day, Rock announced that the Philippine capital Metro Manila will again implement the “enhanced community quarantine” (ECQ) measures from August 6 to August 20. From July 30 to August 5, the area maintained the existing “strictly restricted” “General Community Quarantine” (GCQ) as a transition.
Locke said these decisions were made at a time when cases of the delta strain in the country were on the rise. Nicanor Austriaco, a researcher of the OCTA Epidemic Research Group at the University of the Philippines, said on the 29th that if stricter quarantine measures are not implemented, many hospitals in Metro Manila may reach full capacity in mid-August.
According to the Philippine Ministry of Health, 97 new cases of Delta strain were added in the Philippines on July 29, of which 88 were local cases, 6 were Filipinos returning from overseas, and the information of 3 cases is still being verified.
In order to prevent the rapid spread of the delta strain, Duterte said this week that the government will arrange for more Filipinos to be vaccinated. So far, 17 million people in the country have been vaccinated against the new crown. (Finish)
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