After fierce public outcry, the Philippine government is set to ease restrictions on the deployment ban against overseas Filipino health workers, allowing those with existing contracts to leave the country for work abroad. READ:
Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo, whom Locsin thanked in his tweet, likewise confirmed this, saying the government's coronavirus task force passed a resolution allowing nurses with existing contracts to leave.
President Rodrigo Duterte will still need to approve the resolution of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the coronavirus. But Panelo said the new measure is all but a"foregone conclusion," considering Duterte"has not disapproved any recommendation made by the IATF."
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