President Rodrigo Duterte reminds local government units to welcome returning overseas Filipino workers amid the COVID-19 crisis in the country
President Rodrigo Duterte reminded local government units to welcome returning overseas Filipino workers amid the COVID-19 crisis in the country.
“Hindi naman sila lahat nagkasakit . It is very cruel actually to deny them to go home,” said Duterte in his weekly public address aired Monday night.that a total of 465 returning OFWs have tested positive for COVID-19. “Nobody but nobody can really stifle the right of [OFWs] whether he is travelling, working outside and coming in, going home,” he noted.
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