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A House leader is encouraging local government units to support the Marcos administration’s efforts to bring the country back to normalcy by ditching whatever entry restrictions on inbound travellers they might still have in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic.“Keeping the strict restrictions on the entry of travellers or tourists up to now defeats the purpose of Executive Order No.7,” Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte said in a statement Tuesday, Nov 15.
“EO No.7 will be rendered useless if international travellers or tourists would finally be enticed anew to go to the Philippines, only to end up being saddled, upon their arrival in the national capital or elsewhere, with troublesome entry requirements in the local places they want to visit,” noted Villafuerte, majority leader of the powerful Commission on Appointments in the House of Representatives.
Villafuerte is backing the appeal of DOT Secretary Christina Frasco for local officials, through the Department of the Interior and Local Government , to lift entry restrictions on travellers that they had enforced in their respective LGUs since the pandemic broke out in 2020. “We’re currently working with the DILG for the purpose of ensuring that any and all restrictions individually implemented by LGUs nationwide are lifted so that we have a national policy as far as the entry of tourists is concerned. The national policy being, to welcome our friends and family back into the Philippines,” she was quoted as saying.
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