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Hontiveros presses DOH, IATF to create guidelines for automatic travel bans
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday pressed the Department of Health (DOH) and the Inter-Agency Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) to create and strictly enforce guidelines for automatic travel bans to and from countries with high COVID-19 infections or new variants. Sana hindi na maghintay para sa public clamor ang DOH at IATF bago sila mag-implement ng travel ban. Laging napakabagal kundi last minute ang desisyon. Kaya lahat na ng COVID variants sa mundo ay kumakalat na dito sa Pilipinas. Wag naman tayong maging welcoming committee ng bagong variants, the senator remarked.
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MANILA, Mar. 7 Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers in the different international airports have been ordered to thoroughly screen arriving foreigners despite having 9(a) temporary visitor’s visas and entry exemption documents to make sure that they have valid and legitimate purposes in visiting the country.
A memorandum order issued recently by BI Commissioner Jaime Morente reminded immigration inspectors manning the ports to conduct strict arrival formalities on arriving passengers despite having the required documents.
The memorandum was addressed to the heads bureau’s port operations division (POD), which supervises primary inspectors assigned at the airports’ immigration counters, and the intelligence division and travel control and enforcement unit (TCEU), which handles the secondary inspection of arriving aliens.