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OFWs can to return to jobs in Hong Kong, Macau despite coronavirus travel ban – DFA @ 2020-02-19T04: 返回 新闻热点
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A GOVERNMENT TASK FORCE DECIDED TO EXEMPT THOSE WORKING IN HONG KONG AND MACAU FROM THE TRAVEL BAN “SUBJECT TO CERTAIN FORMALITIES,” FOREIGN AFFAIRS UNDERSECRETARY BRIGIDO DULAY SAID ON HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT ON TUESDAY. THE GOVERNMENT ALSO LIFTED ON FEB. 14 A DAYS-OLD TRAVEL BAN ON TAIWAN.
HSBC, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BANKS IN HONG KONG, SAID IT PLANS TO CUT 35,000 JOBS AND $4.5 BILLION IN COSTS AS IT FACES HEADWINDS THAT INCLUDE THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK AND MONTHS OF POLITICAL STRIFE IN HONG KONG. THE BANK, BASED IN LONDON, HAD COME TO DEPEND INCREASINGLY ON CHINA FOR GROWTH.
TESS AQUINO, A PERMANENT RESIDENT WHO HAS LIVED IN HONG KONG FOR 23 YEARS, SAID: "I HAVE ATTEMPTED ALL POSSIBLE WAYS TO RETURN BACK TO HONG KONG. I WAS TOLD BY MY COMPANY TO TRY TRAVELLING TO HONG KONG VIA VIETNAM."
THAT MORNING, ON FEB. 2, PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE OF THE PHILIPPINES HAD ANNOUNCED A TEMPORARY TRAVEL BAN THAT BARRED FLIGHTS ARRIVING FROM MAINLAND CHINA, HONG KONG AND MACAU. AT THE AIRPORT, OFFICIALS TOLD MS. DORINGO THAT THE BAN ALSO APPLIED TO FILIPINO TRAVELERS GOING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
THOUSANDS OF OFWS BOUND FOR HONG KONG AND MACAU WERE LEFT STRANDED IN THE PHILIPPINES AFTER PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE ON FEBRUARY 2 IMPOSED A TRAVEL BAN TO CHINA AND ITS SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS. THEY HAVE APPEALED TO THE GOVERNMENT TO ALLOW THEM TO RETURN TO THEIR JOBS.
IT IS NOT CLEAR HOW MANY OF THE 360,000 CHINESE STUDENTS STUDYING IN THE US WERE OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY WHEN THE US TRAVEL BAN HIT ON JANUARY 31, SHORTLY BEFORE MANY UNIVERSITIES WERE DUE TO RESUME. BUT WHEN AUSTRALIA IMPOSED ITS RESTRICTIONS AT THE START OF FEBRUARY, AUTHORITIES ESTIMATED THAT 56% OF CHINESE STUDENTS -- ABOUT 106,680 PEOPLE -- WERE STILL ABROAD. TERM WAS DUE TO BEGIN IN LATE FEBRUARY OR EARLY MARCH.
LION TRAVEL SAID MORE THAN 300 OF ITS CUSTOMERS ARE IN THE PHILIPPINES, INCLUDING IN CEBU, BORACAY AND PALAWAN, WHILE COLA TOUR SAID THE ITINERARIES OF ITS 13 TOUR GROUPS CONSISTING OF 176 PEOPLE THAT ARE NOW IN THE PHILIPPINES WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY THE NEWEST TRAVEL BAN.
THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE TRAVEL BAN ON AUSTRALIA’S TOURISM AND EDUCATION SECTORS IS ESTIMATED TO SLASH 0.5% FROM AUSTRALIA’S GDP GROWTH IN THE FIRST QUARTER, ACCORDING TO ANALYSTS FROM ANZ BANK.
"TODAY, DFA SEC LOCSIN’S ADVOCACY HAS COME TRUE. OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKER (OFWS) RETURNING FOR WORK IN HONG KONG AND MACAU HAVE BEEN EXEMPTED FROM THE OUTBOUND TRAVEL BAN BY THE INTER-AGENCY TASK FORCE ON EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES (IATF-EID), SUBJECT TO CERTAIN PROCEDURAL FORMALITIES," THE DIPLOMAT WROTE ON TWITTER.
TIM HAMLETT CAME TO HONG KONG IN 1980 TO WORK FOR THE HONG KONG STANDARD AND HAS CONTRIBUTED TO, OR WORKED FOR, MOST OF HONG KONG"S ENGLISH-LANGUAGE MEDIA OUTLETS, NOTABLY AS THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD"S AWARD-WINNING INVESTIGATIVE TEAM, AS A COLUMNIST IN THE SCMP AND AS A PRESENTER OF RTHK"S MEDIAWATCH. IN 1988 HE BECAME A FULL-TIME JOURNALISM TEACHER. SINCE OFFICIALLY RETIRING NINE YEARS AGO, HE HAS CONCENTRATED ON MUSIC, DANCE, BLOGGING AND A VERY TIME-CONSUMING DOG.
CRUISE SHIP TRAVEL REMAINS A “MANAGEABLE RISK” FOR NOW, AND IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE TO RECOMMEND A BAN ON IT, THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SAID, EVEN AS THE RETURN HOME OF 3,000 TRAVELLERS FROM TWO CORONAVIRUS-STRICKEN CRUISE SHIPS FUELS FEARS OF FURTHER CONTAGION.
WITHOUT KNOWING HOW THE OUTBREAK WILL PROGRESS, IT IS POSSIBLE THAT COUNTRIES COULD STILL ENACT NEW TRAVEL BANS. IN LATE JANUARY, I WAS CONSIDERING TAKING A WEEKEND TRIP TO TAIWAN TO VISIT A FRIEND. I CALLED OFF THE TRIP DUE TO CORONAVIRUS FEARS — WHICH ENDED UP BEING A GOOD DECISION AS NUMEROUS COUNTRIES HAVE BANNED THE ENTRY OF PASSENGERS WHO HAD VISITED TAIWAN IN THE PAST 14 DAYS. 
ON JAN. 31, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ISSUED STRINGENT NEW TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS, EFFECTIVELY BARRING ENTRY TO ANY NON-U.S. CITIZENS WHO RECENTLY TRAVELED IN CHINA AND IMPOSING A 14-DAY QUARANTINE ON RETURNING U.S. CITIZENS. CHINESE NATIONALS WHO ARE SPOUSES OR IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBERS OF A U.S. CITIZEN ARE EXEMPT FROM THE BAN.
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ASKED IF CHINA WOULD LOBBY TO LIFT THE TRAVEL BAN BEING IMPOSED AGAINST HONG KONG, MACAU AND, EVENTUALLY THE MAINLAND, HUANG REPLIED: “WE HOPE TO SEE SCIENTIFIC AND CALM RESPONSE, AND SCIENTIFIC MEASURES TO BE TAKEN TO PREVENT AND CONTROL THE SPREAD OF THE VIRUS HERE. WE HOPE THERE WILL BE A REASSESSMENT OF THE SITUATION SO THAT UNNECESSARY MEASURES WILL BE LIFTED.”

 

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