IATF: Returning Filipinos must quarantine and test for COVID-19
The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has mandated that all returning overseas Filipinos, including workers, must undergo a 14-day facility-based quarantine and rapid antibody testing for COVID-19.
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles announced that sea-based OFWs with a clean bill of health from the Bureau of Quarantine will also be subjected to rapid antibody tests upon arrival.
The measure applies to all returning Filipinos coming from areas with community-based transmission, not just workers.
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