MANILA, Philippines — The government is looking into the possibility of imposing a travel ban on Indonesia amid the threat of the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Thursday.
“This is being studied by our technical advisory group of experts and I understand that there are already many countries where the Delta variant have invaded,” Duque told ABS-CBN News Channel when asked if the government will include Indonesia, which has been seeing a rise in COVID-19 cases, in the travel curbs.
“In fact, the UK also has very high Delta variant cases but what is important is very stringent border control. The quarantine protocol …
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