(Eagle News) – Foreign cruise ships carrying Filipino crew are allowed to dock in Manila ports and will be used as quarantine facilities for its Filipino crew members, according to the Inter-agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases.
This was contained in Resolution no. 24 by the IATF, Cabinet Secretary and IATF spokesperson Karlo Nograles said.
He said that the foreign ships carrying Filipino crew members will only be allowed to dock in Manila “subject to guidelines to be issued by the member-agencies of the sub-task group for repatriation of Overseas Filipino Workers”.
“Ang mga foreign crew ship na may dalang mga Pilipinong crew members ay papayagang dumaong sa mga pantalan ng Maynila at magamit bilang quarantine facility nila alinsunod sa patakaran ng sub-task group for the repatriation of Overseas Filipino Workers,” he said.
As for the cruise ships’ foreign crew, they will allowed to disembark in Manila only “for the sole purpose of taking outbound flights to their final destination abroad” , and only after completing the 14-day mandatory quarantine period upon disembarkation, Nograles explained.
“Ang mga foreign crew members na kasama nila ay papayagang umuwi sa kanilang mga bansa basta matapos din nila ang mandatory 14-day quarantine dito,” he added.
(Eagle News Service)