Following the meeting of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) yesterday, Thursday, 14 October 2021, the updated list of RED, YELLOW, and GREEN countries effective 16-31 October 2021 has been released.
Green List
- Algeria
- American Samoa
- Bhutan
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Cayman Islands
- Chad
- China (Mainland)
- Comoros
- Republic of the Congo
- Cook Islands
- Eritrea
- Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
- Gibraltar
- Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China)
- Kiribati
- Madagascar
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Montserrat
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Niue
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Palau
- Poland
- Saba (Special Municipality of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
- Saint Helena
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Samoa
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Eustatius
- Solomon Islands
- Sudan
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Yemen
Red List
- Romania
All other countries, jurisdictions, or territories not listed above are considered to be under the YELLOW list.
Updated Quarantine Protocols
Based on the recent guidelines issued by the IATF-EID, passengers arriving from RED list countries will still be barred from entering the Philippines if they stayed there for 14 days prior to their arrival.
For passengers who were just merely transiting through a RED list country, they will be deemed as having come from or having been to said country or jurisdiction or territory if they stayed in the airport the whole time and were not cleared for entry by its immigration authorities.
Filipinos arriving from countries under the RED list are required to spend their first ten (10) days in a quarantine facility and the last four (04) days at home. They are also mandated to take a Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test on the 7th day upon arrival.
For fully-vaccinated passengers arriving from YELLOW countries, they will still need to undergo facility-based quarantine until the release of their negative RT-PCR test result taken on their 5th day upon arrival.
Unvaccinated or partially vaccinated travelers, as well as those with unverified vaccination status, will have to undergo a facility-based quarantine until the release of their negative RT-PCR test result taken on their 7th day in the Philippines. Filipino travelers are required to undergo home quarantine for another week, while foreigners have to secure pre-booked accommodation of at least eight (08) days.
Fully-vaccinated foreigners from GREEN list countries are no longer required to undergo a facility-based quarantine, on the condition that they yield negative RT-PCR test results taken within 72 hours prior to departure from the country of origin.
Foreigners vaccinated abroad can present WHO-issued ICV, or the national digital certificate of the foreign government which has accepted VaxCertPH under a reciprocal agreement unless otherwise permitted by the IATF-EID.
While fully-vaccinated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) or non-OFWs from GREEN states also have the option to undergo a facility-based quarantine until the release of their negative RT-PCR test result taken in the quarantine facility upon arrival in the country. They may also opt not to undergo quarantine, so long as they get a negative RT-PCR test result within 72 hours prior to departure from the country of origin.
These travelers are also advised to self-monitor for any symptoms until their 14th day in the country.
Unvaccinated or partially vaccinated individuals, and those with unverified vaccination status, and those who failed to comply with the “test-before-travel requirements” need to undergo a facility-based quarantine until the release of their negative RT-PCR test taken on their 5th day upon arrival to the Philippines.
In the case of unvaccinated or partially vaccinated minors traveling with their fully vaccinated parents or guardians, they are mandated to observe the quarantine protocols corresponding to their vaccination status.
OFWs and their spouse, parents, or children traveling in the Philippines or abroad can present either VaxCertPH digital vaccination certificate, International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis (ICV) issued by BOQ or the World Health Organization (WHO), or the national digital certificate of the foreign government accepting VaxCertPH to validate their vaccination status.
The same requirements can be presented by non-OFWs vaccinated in the country or abroad, and foreigners vaccinated in the Philippines.