President Rodrigo Duterte orders all overseas Filipino workers stuck in quarantine in Metro Manila to be brought back to their home provinces by the end of the week. Read:
BACK HOME. A quarantine team from DOH assist repatriated OFWs from different countries into a hotel-turned isolation facility in Manila on April 2, 2020. File photo by Ben Nabong/Rappler
MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, May 25, ordered concerned government agencies to ensure all overseas Filipino workers stuck quarantine in Metro Manila were brought back to their home provinces by the end of the week. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Duterte gave the directive to officials from the Department of Labor and Employment , Overseas Workers Welfare Administration , and Department of Health earlier this morning as some 24,000 OFWs remained in limbo due to delayed test results and processing of certificates.
Delays in the release of test results, however, have caused OFWs to remain in quarantine for far longer than 14 days. Some workers yet to receive their results reported being stranded in Metro Manila for over a month now. Aside from this, backlogs were also seen in the release of quarantine certificates that would ensure OFWs completed health protocols and were not infected with the coronavirus.
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