THE Department of Tourism (DoT) welcomes the new protocols for arriving passengers contained in the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) Resolution No. 97 dated January 28, 2021, following the body’s decision to lift the travel ban on passengers coming from countries with reported cases of the new Covid variant.

Effective February 1, 2021, with the lifting of travel restrictions on Covid-19 new variant countries, foreign nationals will be re-allowed to enter under relevant IATF resolutions but subject to the following conditions: with valid and existing visa at the time of entry, except for those qualified under the Balikbayan program under RA 6768; with pre-booked accommodation for at least seven nights in an accredited quarantine hotel/facility; subject to Covid-19 testing at the quarantine hotel/facility on the sixth day from date of arrival; and subject to the maximum capacity of inbound passengers at the port and date of entry;

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