Published on: Tuesday, May 04, 2021
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73 of the around 2,000 Filipinos working or residing in India have contracted Covid-19 of which 2 have died.
MANILA: The Philippines will repatriate Filipinos in India who want to go home when commercial flights resume, Philippine Ambassador to New Delhi Ramon Bagatsing Jr. said .
Bagatsing said there are still no direct flights between India and the Philippines and it is “logistically difficult” to start a repatriation flight since many countries have issued a travel ban on India.
The Philippines barred entry of travellers from India or with travel history to India in the last 14 days to prevent the transmission of a “double mutant” coronavirus strain.
MANILA, Philippines The Philippines will repatriate Filipinos in India who want to go home when commercial flights resume, Philippine Ambassador to New Delhi Ramon Bagatsing Jr. said yesterday. In an interview on dzMM radio, Bagatsing said there are still no direct flights between India and the Philippines and it is “logistically difficult” to start a repatriation flight since many countries have issued a travel ban on India. The Philippines.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 27) The Philippine government has yet to impose a travel ban to and from India, as the so-called double-mutant COVID-19 variant found in the South Asian country is not yet considered a variant of concern, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Tuesday.
In an interview with CNN Philippines
The Source, Duque said they have yet to discuss their latest actions on the B.1.617 coronavirus variant with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, especially on travel guidelines for overseas Filipino workers returning from India.
The DOH earlier said the variant has a number of mutations that could increase transmissibility and help escape immune response. The Philippines has not recorded a case of the India variant for now.