MANILA - The Philippines has allowed Filipinos with jobs in Hong Kong and Macau to return to these territories, easing travel restrictions it imposed following the coronavirus outbreak that first surfaced in China.
A top Foreign Ministry official said in a Twitter post on Tuesday (Feb 18) that those working in Hong Kong and Macau are now exempted from the travel ban, "subject to certain procedural formalities".
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Love that Macau opened it’s casinos up. HUH!
REAL gamblers would go there just to gamble on getting infected, and on surviving.
26 people quarantined in Westchester N.Y. after returning from China outbreak areas
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Coronavirus: 26 people quarantined in Westchester after returning from China outbreak areas
David Robinson, The Journal NewsPublished 4:50 p.m. ET Feb. 18, 2020
There are 26 people in Westchester County being quarantined after returning from recent travel to areas affected by the coronavirus outbreak in China, authorities said Tuesday.
None of the Westchester residents, who are being voluntarily quarantined mostly in their homes, have shown symptoms of the coronavirus, called COVID-19, according to Dr. Sherlita Amler, county health commissioner.
“These people are not ill, but we still have to monitor them,” Amler said Tuesday, during a news conference.
Similar public-health quarantines of travelers are underway in other communities statewide and across the country. The people will be monitored by county health officials for the 14 days since they departed from the locations affected by coronavirus, Amler said.