DOH announces it can still vaccinate Filipinos, use its stock (if the expired / expiring batches are applied and granted shelf-life extensions), and that it will accept donations of Bivalent products to meet the requirements of Filipinos even though the State of Calamity has expired.
Still trying to figure out if I can travel from the Philippines to the US. I am a US citizen permanent resident of the Philippines and of course an un-jabbed pure blood...lol
No problems to the US. Just the antigen test on the way back, though check the listed LGU requirements for their own arrival protocols if you are living in the provinces.
I sure hope they do not change any of the arrival policies as I am flying in on the 25th Jan. I have not seen my lady since August 2021. This whole Plandemic has totally screwed our lives over the last few years. Births are down everywhere. Australia's birth rate has declined drastically. Our deaths are up by an extraordinary amount. Go figure! Deaths up, births down. Depopulation?????
So far, the existing requirement is either negative antigen test within 24 hours prior to travel, or upon arrival. Persons testing positive upon arrival will be required to quarantine. 7 days for vaccinated persons, or 10 days for unvaccinated persons.
If you are just going around the Manila or Cebu areas, it is just the antigen test to enter the country.
Meanwhile, if you are going to somewhere in the other provinces - you have to check with the LGUs. Some of the major tourist spots like Cebu, Bacolod, and Bohol no longer check (for international arrivals Cebu checks otherwise no hassle for domestic). Others STILL have listed the RT-PCR test for arrivals as a requirement if you do not have proof of vaccination.
I think its due to the delegation of the authority to impose travel restrictions during the pandemic, which the LGUs did seem to follow each other at around the same time back in 2020. Nowadays, they have been updating it on their own hence why it does not seem coordinated.
Playing devil's advocate, I think China probably saw how zero-COVID just made things worse. The whole idea of just letting it run its course is something we have seen in other global epidemics in the past, and likely would work better.
China has opened its borders and released all stops on their ongoing covid-19 outbreak on 8th January 2023. The apparent intent is to allow the infection to spread rapidly through the population to generate herd immunity, and then get on with life.
With the Chinese New Year happening on 22nd January 2023, and the mass migration (both within and from international returning Chinese to China) that comes with that, I suspect that everyone will be exposed to Covid-19, deal it with whatever natural outcomes result, and Covid-19 in China will be mostly over within February.
Especially given how China doesn't use the mRNA jabs at all (outside of Macau and Hong Kong). They prefer to use their own traditional, inactivated whole virus vaccines. The mRNA jabs are what seems to be keeping the pandemic going, or rather settling into high endemicity, rather than the currently low endemicity like it is in most of the largely non-mRNA countries.
Thus, it will be largely over and done with in China very soon.
Still trying to figure out if I can travel from the Philippines to the US. I am a US citizen permanent resident of the Philippines and of course an un-jabbed pure blood...lol
US citizen probably can. Visitor cannot. https://www.travelinglifestyle.net/us-reopening-borders-to-tourism-who-can-enter/?fbclid=IwAR016A_M6LiZM_i3LvOj6JPY_7ai2r8rwneKnHzQboVXIx39sMkYTPNDSpg&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
Thank You. This is very helpful.
No problems to the US. Just the antigen test on the way back, though check the listed LGU requirements for their own arrival protocols if you are living in the provinces.
Thank You.
Get fake jabbed in PH using 'cash under table' method. 1 J&J and 1 J&J booster, lol
J&J has boosters?
Thank You.
I sure hope they do not change any of the arrival policies as I am flying in on the 25th Jan. I have not seen my lady since August 2021. This whole Plandemic has totally screwed our lives over the last few years. Births are down everywhere. Australia's birth rate has declined drastically. Our deaths are up by an extraordinary amount. Go figure! Deaths up, births down. Depopulation?????
So far, the existing requirement is either negative antigen test within 24 hours prior to travel, or upon arrival. Persons testing positive upon arrival will be required to quarantine. 7 days for vaccinated persons, or 10 days for unvaccinated persons.
If you are just going around the Manila or Cebu areas, it is just the antigen test to enter the country.
Meanwhile, if you are going to somewhere in the other provinces - you have to check with the LGUs. Some of the major tourist spots like Cebu, Bacolod, and Bohol no longer check (for international arrivals Cebu checks otherwise no hassle for domestic). Others STILL have listed the RT-PCR test for arrivals as a requirement if you do not have proof of vaccination.
Yep, haphazard different requirement everywhere!
I think its due to the delegation of the authority to impose travel restrictions during the pandemic, which the LGUs did seem to follow each other at around the same time back in 2020. Nowadays, they have been updating it on their own hence why it does not seem coordinated.
Wonder when they will start un-aliving senior citizens here....
Playing devil's advocate, I think China probably saw how zero-COVID just made things worse. The whole idea of just letting it run its course is something we have seen in other global epidemics in the past, and likely would work better.
China and Covid-19, Letting It Rip
China has opened its borders and released all stops on their ongoing covid-19 outbreak on 8th January 2023. The apparent intent is to allow the infection to spread rapidly through the population to generate herd immunity, and then get on with life.
With the Chinese New Year happening on 22nd January 2023, and the mass migration (both within and from international returning Chinese to China) that comes with that, I suspect that everyone will be exposed to Covid-19, deal it with whatever natural outcomes result, and Covid-19 in China will be mostly over within February.
Especially given how China doesn't use the mRNA jabs at all (outside of Macau and Hong Kong). They prefer to use their own traditional, inactivated whole virus vaccines. The mRNA jabs are what seems to be keeping the pandemic going, or rather settling into high endemicity, rather than the currently low endemicity like it is in most of the largely non-mRNA countries.
Thus, it will be largely over and done with in China very soon.