SunStar Duterte extends UK travel ban, okays other measures to block new virus variant
ENGLAND. In this photo taken in June 2020, passengers wearing face masks arrive at London s Heathrow Airport. (File)
+ December 27, 2020 (UPDATED) President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, December 26, 2020, approved the recommendation to extend for two weeks the temporary ban on inbound flights from the United Kingdom (UK) in a bid to block the new Sars-CoV-2 variant.
The President also approved the strict implementation of mandatory 14-day quarantine regardless of RT-PCR test results for all passengers coming from countries with confirmed cases of the new virus variant such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, South Africa and Japan.