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(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs has recently repatriated over 300 Filipinos from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The DFA said the 354 distressed or stranded overseas Filipino workers arrived in the country on Dec. 23 via a special repatriation flight. The department said the repatriates will undergo a stringent facility-based quarantine provided by the Philippine government. It said this was in conformity with the health protocols set by the Department […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs has repatriated over 200 overseas Filipinos from Bahrain, Lebanon and Syria in time for the new year. In a statement, the DFA said of the 285 repatriated on December 29, 29 were from Bahrain, 253 from Beirut, and three from Syria. The department said the Filipinos arrived via a chartered flight. The repatriation was made possible under the assisted repatriation program of the Philippine embassies in Manama, […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs has repatriated over 200 more Filipinos from Saudi Arabia. The DFA said the 263 Filipinos based in Jeddah and other parts of the Western region took a Philippine Airlines chartered flight on Oct. 11 and arrived in Manila on Oct. 12. According to the DFA, the repatriates were among the “thousands” of Overseas Filipino Workers who were economically displaced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Philippine Consul General to […]
(Eagle News)–Over 100 Filipinos have been repatriated from Cambodia this month. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the 168 Filipinos arrived in two batches on Sept. 17 and 28. They were on board special commercial flights of Cambodia Airways and Cambodia Angkor Air, respectively. The DFA said the plane tickets of all but 39 repatriates were charged to the Assistance to Nationals Fund bringing the total number of Filipinos assisted by the embassy in Phnom […]
(Eagle News)–Over 300 Filipinos were repatriated from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. According to the DFA, the 356 Filipinos from Jeddah and other parts of the western region returned home via a Philippine Airlines chartered flight that arrived in Manila on Thursday, Sept. 24. The DFA said tbe repatriates were among the thousands of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who have been economically displaced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The DFA […]
(Eagle News)–Over 200 Filipinos were repatriated from Thailand on Wednesday, Sept. 23. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the 240 Filipinos who returned to Manila from the Suvarnabhumi Airport included four distressed families with children from the south of that country. The batch of repatriates, which was the biggest since repatriation activities for Filipinos in Thailand began in April, was assisted by a Philippine embassy team at the airport. The DFA said the Philippine Airlines […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs repatriated almost 10,000 overseas Filipinos this week. The DFA said the 9671 overseas Filipinos repatriated since the outbreak of COVID-19 brought the total to 174,039 so far. The DFA said of the 174,039, 61,716 or 35.46 percent were sea-based Filipinos, while 112,323 or 64.54 percent were land-based. The 9,671 repatriated this week, the DFA said, included over 7,500 nationals from the Middle East who were repatriated via 27 special […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs has recently repatriated over 100 Filipinos from New Zealand and Fiji. In a statement, the DFA said the 157 Filipinos–142 from New Zealand and 15 from Fiji–were repatriated on Sept. 4. Eight foreign nationals also joined the flight, which was also made possible by the embassy partners including Immigration New Zealand and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. This was the third special commercial repatriation flight from those […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs repatriated over 42,000 overseas Filipinos in August amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The DFA said of the 42,583 repatriated, 76.1 percent flew in from the Middle East. The breakdown of returnees is as follows: 32,389 or 76.1% from the Middle East; 4,423 or 10.4% from Asia and the Pacific; 4,109 or 9.6% from the Americas; 1,571 or 3.7% from Europe; and 91 or 0.2% from Africa. According to the DFA, […]
(Eagle News)–The number of Filipinos repatriated from Thailand rose to 1581 over the weekend after the government repatriated over 100. In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs said the 129 took their flight from the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on Aug. 29. The DFA said some of the Filipinos were fetched and brought to the airport. The DFA has said it has repatriated over 124,000 Filipinos amid the COVID-19 pandemic as of early August. […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs has repatriated 257 Filipinos from Uzbekistan amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The DFA said the special chartered flight carrying mostly documented overseas contract workers arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Saturday evening. The overseas Filipinos had requested the repatriation for fear they would contract COVID-19 in their workplaces. The DFA said the Philippine Airlines flight, which also carried the remains of a deceased Overseas Filipino Worker, was made […]
(Eagle News)–Over 200 Filipinos from the Cayman Islands and two other areas arrived in the country on Thursday, July 30. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the group composed of 205 OFWs and their family members from the islands, and four infants and 36 OFWs from the Bahamas and the British Virgin Islands arrived in Manila via an airbridge British Airways flight organized by the Philippine Embassy to the United States and the Philippine Overseas […]
