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Cheers NMRN, baby Gino, yes Gino ! arrived Saturday afternoon Mother and child doing well, thanks for asking.

 

i just turned 78 and started wearing my helmet while bicycling about one year ago. this after reading that one of the major life changes for the elderly is head injury!! prior to that i spent my entire life avoiding helmets. things change. perception changes as long as you accept the consequences (including the financial ones) ride on and enjoy!! everything you do in life has associated risks

 

Effective Thursday (November 4, 2021), fully vaccinated travelers may enter Negros Oriental without having to present any test requirements.

 

Just saw this on travel to Cebu for vaccinated.

 

I order groceries with "My Suki" Hypermart and they deliver my Gin with no problem.... twice so far during MECQ

 

They stopped asking for passes at the markets too.

This strikes a good balance between the need to implement controls and the freedom of the people.

So far the local community leaders have accomplished training everyone for strict procedures in case there is community spread. Passes, etc. (It took two attempts to get the passes figured out.) In the meantime there is no community spread so the local leadership pulls back on enforcement. The local leadership does not have the authority to change the quarantine level so they just relax enforcement.

This way if covid begins to spread they can deploy the road blocks, enforce the passes and get everyone to follow the procedures more strictly in a very short period of time.

 

Quarantine in Neg Or is 14 days.

More details below.

For arrival in the Philippines there's a whole rigmarole but it just needs co-ordinating from the Philippine end.

If you want to quarantine at home (which I recommend) then your wife/partner will need to talk to the local IATF co-ordinator, otherwise quarantine will be in a government facility with other LSIs who may or may not have Covid.

You will need a “Letter of Acceptance” from the LGO and to get this you’ll need to provide your flight details (i.e. arrival in MNL along with the flight from MNL to DGT – I booked my MNL-DGT flight for 3 days after arrival of my flight from UK (i.e. arrived MNL pm Sunday, flight to DGT was a.m. Wednesday) Note: PAL fly MNL-DGT Tuesday and Friday, CP fly Wednesday & Thursday.

Details

1. Before departure from UK book your hotel in MNL. Book the PCR test for the date you arrive MNL through Philippine Red Cross and pay online (P4000)

https://e-cif.redcross.org.ph/

2. On arrival NAIA T3 proceed to Red Cross PCR Test desk (Some people may try to direct you to other PCR test areas but tell them you’ve pre-booked through Philippine Red Cross) and show your proof of payment and e-cif code – they will register you, give you the bar-code stickers and direct you to the test booth - this route is far quicker.

3. Complete test and proceed downstairs to register with another desk – show your hotel booking and they will give you yet another “chit” to prove you’ve been tested – you’ll need to show this at the taxi rank and hotel check-in.

4. Collect luggage and proceed to taxi rank co-ordinator. My Flight Arrived 16:00 – I departed the airport 16:50

5. I stayed in Pasay (Newport City) for ease of getting to the airport.

6. PCR test result, along with Med Cert will be sent to the email address you provided when you registered with Red Cross and confirmed at test. (I had mine within 11 hours)

7. Send copies of med cert and test result to wife/partner for submitting to LGO. LGO should then send Letter of Acceptance, or draft. (Print at least 2 copies of each at hotel) – We did all the transfer of docs by picture and WhatsApp

8. On receipt of 7 above go to Villamora Police Station (on roundabout at entry to Newport City – opposite Savoy Hotel). Upstairs and ask for travel authorisation. Need to show test result, med cert and LOA. They will then co-ordinate with LGO. Collect travel authorisation pm or next a.m. If your LGO are on the ball they will have already authorised you on the flight (added your name to the manifest)

9. I was advised that - If your name’s not on the manifest they will not issue a boarding pass – even if you have a ticket.

10. On arrival DGT – collect luggage and proceed to car park opposite where you’ll find a load of desks under canvas. Each desk is allocated a set of Barangay. e.g. Bacong, Sibulan, Valencia etc. Find the relevant desk and register where you’ll then be directed to your transport – my wife arranged home quarantine so at this point I was allowed into our car.

It was all, unexpectedly, quite painless and straightforward but I can imagine it being a right ball-ache if your LGO don’t co-operate.

FYI – I've heard that Negros Oriental are not accepting any new LSIs from now until mid January 2021 but you'll need to check this or the local IATF will advise you.

Best of Luck!

 

I always imagined that the Philippines depended to a fairly large degree on tourism. They are killing that entire source of foreign money and eliminating hundreds of thousands of Filipino jobs in the process. They claim the high ground by justifying high taxes and restrictions on items that are detrimental to health, yet in a country with rampant diabetes, there are no restrictions on high-sugar soft drinks and the adding of sugar to almost every goddam thing sold.

Why do governments of so-called "free countries" never learn the lesson that prohibition in any of its many forms does not work. Never did. Never will. Even the reality of getting murdered without trial has not really done a thing to slow the proliferation of illicit drugs in this country, or any other.