The Philippine Air Force is asked to help bring home migrant workers stuck in Metro Manila. | jagoncilloINQ
Sabarez, quoting police reports, said the woman, who was from a town in Cotabato province, had told fellow workers that she tried to commit suicide in Kuwait. She had not been working for four months before her repatriation to the Philippines on April 4, he added.
Sabarez said his office traced the woman’s relatives and found a sister living in Quezon City. The sister went to Rizal Funeral Homes in Pasay on Sunday morning to see the remains. “It so happened that there was a COVID-19 and they were left stranded in Metro Manila,” Sabarez said.He said most of the OFWs whose accommodations were sponsored by the OWWA were overstaying in the hotels, or had stayed beyond the 14-day quarantine period as one of the lockdown measures in Luzon. The lockdown, which was to end on April 30, was extended up to May 15.
The agency, through a directive of Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III and its administrator, Hans Cacdac, will pay for the food and accommodation of the workers. Sabarez said his office was spending P2,000 for the accommodation of each OFW.
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