19/01/2021
📢ADVISORY
FOR ALL ACCOMMODATION ESTABLISHMENTS IN EASTERN VISAYAS OPERATING AS QUARANTINE FACILITIES OF RETURNING OVERSEAS FILIPINOS COMING FROM THE FLAGGED COUNTRIES MUST ENSURE 14-DAY MANDATORY QUARANTINE
The Department of Tourism (DOT) is enjoining all accommodation establishments in Eastern Visayas that are operating as quarantine or isolation facilities for Returning Overseas Filipinos (ROFs) coming from the flagged countries, with existing booking in your respective properties to ensure that the 14-day mandatory quarantine, notwithstanding a negative RT-PCR result, should be strictly followed.
As ordered by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, through the National Task Force against COVID – 19, all arriving flights from the following flagged countries shall undergo RT-PCR swab test and be subjected to a 14-day mandatory facility - based quarantine:
United Kingdom
Iceland
Denmark
Italy
Ireland
Lebanon
Japan
Singapore
Australia
Sweden
Israel
South Korea
The Netherlands
South Africa
Hongkong
Canada
Switzerland
Spain
France
Germany
United States of America
Please be further reminded that accommodation establishments operating as quarantine or isolation facilities are prohibited from accepting guests for staycation, leisure and business guests as per administrative issuances of the Department of Tourism.
Likewise, hotel management must ensure a fast and convenient check in procedure of ROFs upon arrival at their property to reduce the probable exposure and risk of getting COVID – 19.
For immediate and strict implementation.