In a series of tweets, Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr said he will fight the temporary ban on the deployment of health workers amid the coronavirus pandemic. COVID19PH FULL STORY:
Locsin had been tweeting since Friday, April 10, when immigration officials kept Filipino nurses working for the United Kingdom's National Health Service from catching their flight at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, following“This violates the Constitution in 3 ways: right to travel, inviolability of contracts, punitive ex-post facto resolution,” Locsin said.
He said he wants the matter to be on the meeting agenda of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the coronavirus pandemic“I want this on the agenda of the IATF meeting on Monday. No discussion. Long discussions spread COVID-19 as we have seen even via teleconference. Just a raising of hands – for our people or against our people. Also no one talks who is not a Cabinet member,” Locsin said.
Someone responded to Locsin’s tweet by saying that it was not the time to criticize the government and that Filipinos need to trust that their government was doing its “best” to help them amid the pandemic. British Ambassador Daniel Bruce thanked Locsin and DFA Undersecretary Brigido Dulay via Twitter and said,"I do hope we can resolve this issue so that brilliant Filipino healthcare workers, already employed by the #NHS, can get back to the UK to carry on with their jobs."
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