The 5 overseas Filipino workers in Cebu test positive through PCR swabs, while 9 in Iloilo test positive through rapid testing. Over 200 OFWs returned to Visayas provinces this week. COVID19PH
REPATRIATED. Repatriated OFWs arrive in Cebu City amid a coronavirus outbreak. Photo by Gelo Litonjua/Rappler
“They passed the RDT in Manila, but when they arrived here, we swabbed them and it came out that 5 of them were positive ,” Garcia said in Cebuano.“Don’t worry, because they’re under quarantine. I ask that when the OFWs arrived, they be put under 14-day quarantine period,” Garcia said.According to the Department of Labor and Employment, over 20,000 OFWs have been repatriated to the country so far.
The Iloilo mayor said that he did not want the repatriated OFWs to “be a source of new cases” and informed the Office of Civil Defense in Western Visayas, as well as the governors in the neighboring provinces in the region including Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson of the possible additional cases.
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