Two ships on mercy voyages carrying stranded overseas Filipino workers are set to arrive in Bacolod City this week. | carlapgomezINQ
OFWs who would test positive would be kept at the healing facility while the rest would be brought to a Bacolod hotel for quarantine.
The healing facility currently has 19 occupants on quarantine—three OFWs who tested positive for coronavirus and 16 persons under monitoring. At least 300 of some 5,000 sugarcane industry workers also returned home to Antique after the province’s governor, Rhodora Cadiao, issued a certificate accepting the workers back.
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