THE Philippines has banned inbound flights from eight countries in a bid to prevent the spread of the heavily mutated Omicron variant of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), Malacañang said on Wednesday.

Acting Palace spokesman Karlo Alexei Nograles said the decision to ban travelers from "high-risk" areas that are part of the so-called "Red List" was reached following a meeting by the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases on Tuesday.

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