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  "id": "us-travel-advisory:philippines",
  "slug": "philippines",
  "title": "Philippines travel advisory: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution",
  "country": "Philippines",
  "level": 2,
  "level_label": "Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution",
  "level_name": "Exercise Increased Caution",
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    "source_title": "Philippines - Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution",
    "source_url": "https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/philippines-travel-advisory.html",
    "source_updated_at": "2025-05-08",
    "source_identifier": "RP,advisory",
    "country_tag": "RP",
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      "advisory"
    ],
    "source_note": "Reissued after periodic review with minor edits.",
    "summary": "Terrorists and armed groups have carried out kidnappings, bombings, and other attacks targeting public areas like tourist sites, markets, and local government facilities in the Philippines. Violent crimes are also common in the Philippines such as robbery, kidnappings, and physical assaults. Protests happen in the Philippines and could turn violent and/or result in traffic jams and road closures with limited capacity of the local government to respond.",
    "summary_truncated": false
  },
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      "observed_at": "2026-09-10T23:02:54+00:00",
      "level": 2,
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      "source_updated_at": "2025-05-08",
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  "official_url": "https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/philippines-travel-advisory.html",
  "source_name": "U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs and CDC Travelers' Health",
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      "url": "https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml",
      "rights_url": "https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/copyright-disclaimer.html"
    },
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      "name": "CDC Travelers' Health notices",
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    }
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  "source_updated_at": "2026-09-10",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-09-10T23:03:54+00:00",
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    "level_history_before_observation": "The source feed carries only the current advisory. Levels before CiteFacts' first validated observation are unknown, not assumed unchanged.",
    "cdc_destination_coverage": "CDC notices are matched by destination names in the notice title. A CDC destination page may list additional destinations; global and regional notices are listed on the family index, not attached here.",
    "cdc_notices": "No current CDC travel health notice names this destination in its title. This is not a statement that no health risk exists."
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  "derivations": {
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    "observed_level_history": "Daily validated observations retained by CiteFacts. The first row per destination is a baseline; only later rows with a different level are observed changes.",
    "title": "Destination name plus the source level label; not editorial judgment."
  }
}