MANILA - The Philippines has "garnered a tremendous amount of goodwill" from the international community after the government helped bring home foreigners and tourists who were stranded in the country
MANILA - The Philippines has "garnered a tremendous amount of goodwill" from the international community after the government helped bring home foreigners and tourists who were stranded in the country after a lockdown was put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 , Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr.
said Wednesday. Locsin did not mention how many foreign nationals were brought home to their respective countries, but said that the Philippines mounted some 103 "sweeper flights." "The foreign ministers have called me to say, 'Thank you so much because the Philippines stands out by the care and concern they did to bring they nationals back and we will not forget,'" Locsin told senators in a hybrid Senate hearing. "Because of that we have garnered a tremendous amount of good will... So when it comes to the discovery of the cure, I know we will not be left behind [by] whichever country, whichever region in the world discovers it because we did our part not for any selfish motives but because we never leave strangers in a strange land stranded," he said. He did not say which countries made the commitment but said that the Philippines would be "helped to the fullest extent because we did our part." The Philippines is equally grateful to countries that helped overseas Filipino workers return home during the global pandemic, Locsin said.As of April 2020, the DFA has repatriated nearly 17,000 OFWs, of whom 13,213 are seafarers.
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