How Now ACAP proposed to increase travel cap from 4000 to 10000 every day? Shorter quarantine for yellow list countries.

Manila, Philippines: We can see e a lot of changes are happening in PH right now. It is all about rules and regulations. But it is cleared that the restrictions in PH are relaxed step by step as the cases dropped significantly. 

Let's talk about yellow list country's shorter quarantine: 

If you are a fully vaccinated person coming from a yellow list country, you will need to book 6 days quarantine (5 nights). It is important to mention that you need to monitoring yourself at home until 10th days.

On the other hand, if you are a fully vaccinated person and taken a PCR test before departure from your origin country, you need to be quarantine 4 days (3 nights). It is significant to mention that you need to monitor yourself at home until 14th days.

When you are considered as a fully vaccinated person?

If you take two doses of vaccine. Then you passed 14 days. You will be  considered as a fully vaccinated person. For example, you take two doses of vaccine on 10th November. On 24th November, you will be considered as a fully vaccinated person.  

What if you are an unvaccinated person from a yellow list country?

If you are an unvaccinated person from a yellow list country, you need to stay in quarantine 8th days (7 nights).

Let's talk about travel cap-

To address the potential difficulties, Air carriers Association of the Philippines proposed four measures

*Acceptance of vaccine cards, with or without QR codes, by the local government units.

 *Increase of daily inbound international passenger arrivals, from 4,000 to10,000

*Exclusion of fully vaccinated inbound travelers from Green List countries from the daily cap on international arrival

*Reduction of quarantine days for fully vaccinated passengers from Yellow List countries, from five days to two days.

Air Carriers Associations of PH proposes that travel cap should be increased from 4000 to 10,000 every day. They believed that it will be really helpful for inbound passengers around the world who want to come in PH.

It is important to mention that they also think that green list passengers should be excluded from travel cap. It means, they should not be counted in travel cap. As they are from green list countries without quarantine.

It will be really helpful for inbound passengers as well as International Tourists (of course if they open).

The Air Carriers Association of the Philippines is appealing to the government to further simplify the travel requirements for the holiday seasons, which is expected to bring a surge in travel demand.

Citing the improving health situation in the country, Air Association urged the government to make necessary adjustments to policies on both domestic and international travel.

The testing and quarantine protocols of minors shall follow the testing and quarantine protocol of the parent/guardian traveling with them, regardless of the minor's vaccination status, and country of origin.

"These recommendations, if considered and adopted by the government, will enable travelers, especially overseas Filipino workers and Filipina/Filipino from abroad who have long been wanting to return

to the Philippines for Christmas, to enjoy seamless, convenient, and hassle-free travel across all touchpoints of their journey,"