MANILA, Philippines — The pandemic task force has recommended the inclusion of Indonesia in the travel ban amid the increase of COVID-19 cases in the neighboring Asian country in the south, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Wednesday.
Duque said the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) is only awaiting the decision of President Rodrigo Duterte on the matter.
“Kung mag-eexpand ba tayo ng travel ban to Indonesia, naghihintay lang tayo ng kasagutan mula sa OP (Office of the President), but the IATF has already recommended that Indonesia be included in the list of countries that we initially imposed travel ban,” he said du…
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