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(Eagle News) — Over 200 more Filipinos were repatriated from Macau amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, the additional 204 Filipinos repatriated on November 23 pushed the total Filipinos repatriated from the country to 4,961 since March 2020. The DFA said this is the 25th repatriation flight for Filipinos in Macau. According to the DFA, based on the Philippine COVID-19 Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases […]
by Emily Manuel Contributor, Eagle News AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands (Eagle News) — With no end in sight for the COVID-19 pandemic, I decided to join 391 stranded Filipino seafarers, workers, and tourists in a repatriation flight organized by the Philippine Embassy in the The Hague last July 3, 2020. KL 875 would take us from Amsterdam to Manila via Bangkok in approximately 15 hours and 45 minutes. – Check-in – Schiphol Airport stands eerily quiet. […]
by Emily Manuel Contributor, Eagle News THE HAGUE, The Netherlands (Eagle News) – The Philippine Embassy in the Netherlands assisted a total of 392 overseas Filipinos in a repatriation flight from Amsterdam to Manila last July 3, 2020. The flight included 367 seafarers, 3 land-based workers, 10 stranded tourists, 7 au pairs, 2 students, and 3 other returning Filipinos. – Stranded Filipinos – Due to the daily limit of inbound passengers allowed to enter the […]
(Eagle News)–Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Wednesday, Jan. 29, said it “might be difficult” to repatriate Filipinos from Wuhan, China. He said this was because “we might even be risking them to contamination.” “The best way, I suppose, is to let them stay there and follow protocols in China,” he said. Panelo issued the remark after the Department of Health said Filipinos there could return to the Philippines for as long as they undergo a […]
