The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Sunday reported that 106,200 overseas Filipino workers have already been transported to their home provinces.
According to DOLE, the latest batch of 2,246 home-bound OFWs, who tested negative for COVID 19, took their rides back to their respective provinces on July 25.
In a statement, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said the government will exhaust all means to help OFWs regain jobs they lost abroad due to the pandemic. Based on latest reports from DOLE’s overseas offices and Overseas Workers Welfare Administration showed that 254,846 requests for assistance under the Abot Kamay ang Pagtulong program had been approved, with 214,619 OFWs already receiving the emergency aid.
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