MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos stranded in different parts of the country and overseas are having difficulty going home due to confusing regulations and the government’s lack of capability to
A week after lockdown restrictions were loosened on June 1 in Metro Manila, airlines and shipping companies remain unclear about where they can operate.
“Please understand that airline companies and almost all industries—[all of] humanity—for almost two and half months, practically never did anything but to be quarantined,” Sarmiento said in an exchange with Interior Undersecretary Rico Echiverri. “Once a guideline is issued by the [task force], in the first two weeks, local governments tend to have their own interpretation,” Echiverri said. “But once they are reminded by the regional directors, they tend to follow at once.”
Jim Sydiongco, director-general of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, told the House hearing that only 13 of the country’s 40 commercial airports were taking scheduled domestic flights. Migrants are having difficulty going home because the 600 limit at Naia is tied to the capacity of the Department of Health to test for the new coronavirus, said Roberto Lim, vice chair of Air Carriers Association of the Philippines.
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