Revised Quarantine Rules and Regulations

Protect and promote public health by preventing introduction or spread of diseases subject to International Health Regulations.
Applies to vessels, aircraft, crews, passengers, and cargo entering Philippine seaports or airports, public or private.
Includes activities mandated by WHO's International Health Regulations.

Department of Health via the National Quarantine Office (Bureau of Quarantine) handles regulation and enforcement.

Includes key terms such as Aedes egypti index, aircraft, infected area, quarantine, isolation, pratique, suspect, valid certificate, and yellow fever-receptive area.
Definitions set parameters for quarantine operations and disease control measures.

Passenger accommodations must be well ventilated and clean; overcrowding prohibited.
Crew quarters require daily inspection and cleanliness.
Storerooms, refrigerators, galley, mess rooms, toilets, and medical facilities must meet strict sanitary standards.
Procedures for managing communicable diseases on board—including isolation, disinfection, vector control, and special handling for cholera, plague, and mosquito-borne diseases.
Protocols for death at sea and landing of human remains are outlined including embalming certificates and notification procedures.

All vessels from foreign ports and certain domestic vessels with disease occurrence or death must undergo quarantine inspection.
Inspections conducted during specified hours by Quarantine Medical Officers or designated physicians.
Vessels considered in quarantine until granted pratique; must fly yellow flag and comply with boarding and inspection procedures.
Masters must provide health declarations, passenger lists, cargo manifests, deratting certificates, and clinical records.
Immunization certificates, particularly for yellow fever, are mandatory for certain arrivals.
Criteria for granting pratique include sanitary conditions, health status of ports of call, vessel health, deratting status, and cargo type.
Radio pratique may be issued under specific conditions, mainly for military or ocean-going vessels.
Cargo from plague-infected ports must be fumigated or accompanied by fumigation certificates.
Import of transplantation materials and microbes requires special permits.

Rat guards required on mooring lines; cargo nets and gangways must be well managed.
Vessels must be kept at a distance from docks and measures taken to prevent rat transfer between vessels.
Garbage disposal must follow health standards; no dumping overboard.
Control of insect vectors and vermin mandated.
Rat inspection and fumigation required under specified conditions; certificates must be valid.
Additional deratting methods may be employed under official supervision.
Vessels cannot leave without quarantine clearance.

Vessels considered infected with quarantinable diseases may be detained.
Measures include flying yellow flags, restricting contact, and supervising movement and loading.
Medical inspections of persons aboard vessels under detention.
Stool examination for cholera may be required.

Airports must have quarantine medical services, inspection areas, laboratories or access, isolation facilities, disinfection and vector control capabilities, potable water, and vaccination facilities.
Quarantine Medical Officer coordinates with airport health authorities.
Aircraft prohibited from discharging infectious waste; servicing units responsible for disinfection.
Deratting and disinsection of airports or aircraft as needed.
Handling of passengers with infectious diseases and transport of cadavers are strictly regulated.
Protective areas around airports maintained for mosquito control; direct transit areas must be mosquito-proof.

Aircraft from foreign or infected domestic airports, or carrying ill or dead persons subject to inspection.
Aircraft must land at designated entry airports unless authorized otherwise.
Quarantine Medical Officer conducts inspections and issues pratique.
Boarding restricted during inspection; medical declarations and manifests must be provided.
Immunization certificates like yellow fever are required for passengers and crew.
Disinsection of aircraft mandatory before takeoff and before landing using approved insecticides.
Aircraft must obtain quarantine clearance to depart for foreign destinations.

Medical examinations, surveillance, and isolation may be ordered for departing conveyances from infected areas.
Specific measures for cholera include protection of water and food supply and inspection of baggage.
For plague, rat and flea control required along with fumigation of conveyances and cargo.
For yellow fever, valid immunization certificates required and conveyances must be disinsected.

Cholera-infected ships or aircraft: patients isolated and treated, contaminated items disinfected, contaminated waste disposed under supervision.
Ships suspected or infected with plague: medical examinations, isolation, disinsection, fumigation, and surveillance.
Healthy vessels from infected areas subject to surveillance and possible fumigation.
Yellow fever infected or suspected conveyances: isolation of cases, medical examination, disinsection, and discharge supervision.

Violations of these rules punishable by fines up to PHP 2,000 or imprisonment up to one year, or both.
Vessels or aircraft violating provisions may forfeit up to PHP 10,000, a lien determined by Customs.

Certificate must be printed in English and French, valid only with WHO-approved vaccine and designated vaccination center.
Valid for ten years from date of immunization.
Must be signed by authorized medical practitioner, with strict provisions on issuance.
Amendment, erasure, or incomplete certificates considered invalid.