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Filipino travelers from India barred from PH in next 2 weeks - DOH

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 28 03:49 PM

MANILA — The Department of Health on Wednesday reminded the public that even Filipinos coming from India cannot enter the Philippines. Read more »

Indian variant of COVID-19 not yet detected in Philippines — DOH

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 26 02:25 PM

MANILA — The Department of Health on Monday said it has not yet detected the presence of a so-called Indian coronavirus variant in the Philippines.   Read more »

If COVID-19 variants become dominant, new infections may increase 28 times, DOH warns

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 17 07:42 PM

The Department of Health on Wednesday warned that if the Philippines is unable to control the spread of COVID-19 variants, the country may experience a 28-fold increase in new cases. Read more »

DOH says no to 21-day quarantine for travelers even as new COVID-19 strain detected

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 25 05:14 PM

The Department of Health would not recommend the extension of the mandatory quarantine period for travelers to 21 days like what Macau did in December, even as the Philippines detected additional cases of the new and more transmissible COVID-19 variant. Read more »

Contacts of HK Pinay with new COVID-19 variant test positive, but no UK mutation

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 14 03:54 PM

MANILA — The Department of Health on Thursday said that the contacts of the Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong did not have the new and more transmissible COVID-19 variant from the United Kingdom.   Read more »

DOH eyes travel ban vs United Arab Emirates after Pinoy infected with UK variant

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 14 11:34 AM

MANILA — The Department of Health on Thursday said it will be recommending the inclusion of the United Arab Emirates in the Philippines’ travel ban list.   Read more »

UK COVID-19 variant now in the Philippines, says DOH

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 13 11:12 PM

MANILA (3rd UPDATE) — The new and more transmissible coronavirus variant first reported in the United Kingdom has been detected in the Philippines, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Wednesday evening. Read more »

DOH says HK resident with new COVID variant a ‘Filipina domestic helper’

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 07 12:53 PM

The Department of Health on Thursday confirmed that the traveler who tested positive for the new COVID-19 variant days after arriving in Hong Kong is a Filipino national.   Read more »

DOH recommends travel ban on 6 more countries with new COVID-19 variant

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 06 02:37 PM

MANILA — The Department of Health on Wednesday said that it had already recommended a travel ban for more countries that detected the new and more transmissible COVID-19 variant. Read more »

No new COVID variant detected in PH, gene sequencing shows — DOH

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 06 12:11 PM

MANILA — The Department of Health on Wednesday said it has not detected the new and more transmissible COVID-19 variant in the Philippines based on results of genome sequencing. Read more »

IATF technical group to meet Monday on possible travel restrictions on add’l countries

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 04 02:13 PM

The Department of Health on Monday said the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on COVID-19 is looking into imposing travel restrictions on additional countries that recently detected the new COVID-19 variant.   Read more »