The Philippines will continue to take a wait-and-see stance before tightening border controls and restrictions on travelers from China despite its surge of COVID-19 cases, as President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Thursday he did not want to impede-- READ:
its surge of COVID-19 cases, as President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Thursday he did not want to impede the flow of tourists into the country.
Any approach, he said, would be based on science and the country’s current COVID response protocols that applies to all foreign nationals who wish to enter the Philippines.“Is there really a risk? For example, if a Chinese national has tested three times already to be negative, and that was what, 48 hours before their travel, they do not need to be tested,” the President said.
According to the DOH’s latest biosurveillance report, 81 were classified as BA.2.3.20, 1 was BA.2.75, 7 were BA.5, 43 were XBB, 1 was XBC and 11 as other Omicron subvariants. More than a dozen countries have imposed fresh COVID rules on visitors from China in the wake of that outbreak, requiring all arrivals to submit negative virus tests with some screening wastewater from flights arriving from the world’s most populous nation.
“We believe that the current numbers being published from China under-represent the true impact of the disease in terms of hospital admissions, in terms of ICU admissions, and particularly in terms of deaths,” he said.Beijing hit back on Thursday, insisting China had “always shared relevant information and data with the international community, with an open and transparent attitude”.
As countries grapple with the best response to the surge in cases, a crisis meeting of EU experts said on Wednesday that member states were “strongly encouraged” to demand COVID tests from passengers coming from China.
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