Inadequate quarantine facilities in the Philippines should not hamper overseas Filipinos’ from returning home amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Saturday (May 23).
A total of 29,351 overseas Filipinos have been repatriated by the agency since it began bringing back Filipinos affected by COVID-19 in February.
More than 350 overseas Filipino workers of Nasser Al Hajri Corp. in Saudi Arabia arrived in the country on Saturday morning. This came after 53 Filipino seafarers from various parts of the world — France, Mexico, and Indonesia — arrived Friday night. “But we will keep pushing for maximum capacity of returning OFWs. The right to return home cannot be restricted by any consideration, even inadequate quarantine facilities. Then just let them through. But no one keeps OFWs from home. No one,” Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. said on Twitter.
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