The event had originally been due to take place last year from November 7 to 17, but was postponed by 12 months due to the pandemic.

It had originally been planned that the Championships would be staged this month, but the AASF has confirmed to insidethegames that it has been put back to 2023.

It said further information would be provided to National Federations in the near future.

The Asian Swimming Championships is usually staged every four years, with its last edition being held in the Japanese capital Tokyo in 2016.

The 11^th edition of the Championships is scheduled for the Aquatics Centre situated in the Capas municipality of the Tarlac province.

Swimming, diving and water polo events at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games in the Philippines took place there.

However, the Championships has now been delayed twice.

Restrictions on international travel remain in place in the Philippines, which is following a "traffic light" system.

All unvaccinated visitors face a mandatory 14-day quarantine, initially at a designated hotel and then completed at home if a polymerase chain reaction test is returned as negative on the seventh day.

From yellow list countries, only citizens of the country or those with valid visas and their families are able to enter the Philippines, undergoing a 10-day period of quarantine if fully vaccinated.

More stringent restrictions on who can travel exists for passengers from red list countries.

The Philippines has been battling its biggest wave of daily infections since the beginning of the pandemic, peaking at over 26,000 in September.

Cases have declined to fewer than 2,000 in recent days.

The country has recorded almost 2.8 million cases since the start of the pandemic and 43,825 deaths.

As reported by BusinessWorld, the New Clark City Aquatics Centre recently hosted its first swimming meet since the Southeast Asian Games, with Filipino athletes entering a bubble system to compete.