The Foreign Affairs department says that Overseas Filipino workers who have already been quarantined for 14 days will be allowed to return to their homes upon arrival
– Overseas Filipino workers who have already been quarantined abroad will be allowed to go straight home, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs .
[Translation: We have OFWs coming home from cruise ships. The crews or passengers who have already been quarantined in their cruise ships can now go straight to their families.] "Patuloy ang pagdating ng ating repatriated OFWs na naapektuhan ng COVID-19 mula sa iba't ibang bansa," Dulay added. In the same online briefing, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration said that all returning OFWs, even asymptomatic ones, are required to go through the mandatory 14-day quarantine.
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