173,088 OFWs sent home to provinces by DOLE
Administrator Hans Cacdac of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration in his report to Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the month of August had 55,709 OFW returnees making their homecoming after they tested negative for COVID-19.
President Duterte approved the release of P5 billion under Bayanihan 1 law to OWWA in June for the repatriation and assistance to returning OFWs.
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