MANILA, Jan. 8 -- Foreigners from six more countries with the Covid-19 variant are now banned from entering the Philippines.
Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Jaime Morente said the new restrictions apply for travelers who will arrive from the following countries: Portugal, India, Finland, Norway, Jordan, and Brazil.
"The travel ban to these six countries started today, at midnight," said Morente.
These countries are in addition to the 21 which are subjects of travel restrictions earlier announced by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) in an effort to prevent the entry of travelers infected by the new coronavirus strain.