Safety precaution: Passengers wearing hazmat suits walking inside the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Paranaque, Metro Manila. — Reuters
The government extended by two weeks a ban on travellers from more than 30 territories and countries where a more transmissible Covid-19 variant has been detected, with the restriction also now covering Filipinos who want to come home.
The South-East Asian country, which has recorded its first case of a new variant that was first found in Britain, has the second highest number of Covid-19 cases and casualties in the region, next to Indonesia.
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