DOH emphasizes importance of health screening on local travelers

📆 10/28/2021 2:50 PM
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The Department of Health (DOH) said it is still recommending that provincial local government units still strictly conduct a health screening for travelers going to their areas to prevent transmission of COVID-19.

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“Ang DOH po ay hindi nagma-mandate po ng testing at our local borders. Pero ang atin pong nirirekomenda ay magkaroon po ng tinatawag nating clinical and exposure screening ,” said DOH-Epidemiology Bureau Director Dr. Alethea De Guzman on Thursday, Oct. 28. Some provincial local governments already decided to no longer require fully-vaccinated tourists to undergo reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction testing.

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