Focus Taiwan
Date: 02/13/2020
By: Emerson Lim

Taipei, Feb. 13 (CNA) The government of the Philippines will conduct a risk assessment to decide whether a temporary travel ban to Taiwan will be lifted amid possible retaliatory measures by Taiwan, Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque said Thursday in a radio interview in Manila.

"The ban can be reversed if the risk assessment shows favorable results," he said.

Duque said the decision to enforce the travel ban was aimed at controlling the spread of the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) in the Philippines.

The Philippine government first issued a travel ban on China Feb. 2 to prevent the spread of the virus to the Philippines.    [FULL  STORY]