Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday extended a ban on flights from the United Kingdom by another two weeks.
The ban will remain in place until mid-January in a bid to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus variant.
Duterte also ordered a 14-day quarantine for passengers that came from or transited in the UK, and from countries where the more infectious COVID-19 variant was detected.
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Fire breaks out in seven-storey building in Indonesia's Jakarta, 13 dead
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Six Pakistani soldiers killed after gunmen attack security checkpoint
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India orders crisis-hit IndiGo to cut flights by 5%
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