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(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs repatriated over 6,000 overseas Filipinos last week. The DFA said the additional 6501 repatriates brought the total number of Filipinos abroad brought home by the government since the start of the pandemic in February last year to 394,107. Of the total 394,107 repatriated, the DFA said 104,290 were seafarers, while 289817 were land-based. According to the department, the 6501 overseas Filipinos included 171 overseas Filipinos from Laos […]
(Eagle News)–Over 1000 overseas Filipinos were repatriated amid the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday and Thursday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. According to the DFA, of the at least 1391, 361 came from Beirut, Lebanon; 180 from Macau; over 200 from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates; over 500 from Qatar; and around 150 from LA, in the United States. The DFA said this was the second DFA-chartered mass repatriation flight from Lebanon since the […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Foreign Affairs said it repatriated over 8000 overseas Filipinos this week. The DFA said with the additional 8,329 repatriated, the number of Filipinos abroad brought home since the pandemic started rose to 153124 since the pandemic started. Of the total 153,124 repatriates, 57,595 or 37.6 percent were sea-based while 95,529 or 62.4 percent were land-based. “While commercial flights from various countries remain limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the DFA […]
(Eagle News)-The Department of Foreign Affairs has said it has repatriated over 135,000 overseas Filipinos amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The DFA said the total 135,290 was after an additional 10,573 overseas Filipinos were brought home this week. Of the total, 38.9 percent (52,639 overseas Filipinos) were sea-based while 61.1 percent (82,651 overseas Filipinos) were land-based. Of this number, only this week, the DFA said it repatriated 8,112 overseas Filipinos from the Middle East through 27 […]
