Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an international organization that monitors and sets guidelines to protect against money laundering and terrorism financing added Turkey, Jordan and Mali to its watch list Thursday.
While the threat of COVID-19 is still very much at the fore of our daily lives, restrictions for both essential and leisure travellers have been imposed to combat and lessen the impact of the disease. Because of this, many people had a hard time managing additional requirements such as health declaration forms, permits, and swab test results.
To address this, the Department of Tourism (DOT) said that it is ready to adapt and support an application that will allow travellers coming in and out of the country to arrange their requirements digitally.
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In an interview, Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said that her agency will introduce the International Air Transport Association (IATA)-enabled platform in the coming meetings with the Inter-Agency Task Force Against Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF).