DOH: No travel ban on Japan, Iran, Italy, Singapore
The Department of Health (DOH) announced that the Inter-agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) will not impose a travel ban on Japan, Iran, Italy, and Singapore due to their medium risk level.
Duque stated that these countries do not meet the criteria for inclusion in the travel ban list as they have low numbers of travelers to the Philippines and no local transmission has been confirmed.
The DOH uses factors such as presence of local transmission, volume or number of cases, volume of travelers, and capacity of the government to respond when assessing health risks.
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