177 Chinese stranded at Naia leave for China
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said on Thursday that 177 Chinese nationals stranded at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) were finally able to leave for China on a chartered flight on Wednesday night.
They had entered the country before the imposition of a travel ban to and from mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau on Feb. 2 amid the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak.
Immigration spokesperson Dana Sandoval said that some of them might have spent the Lunar New Year in the country on Jan. 25. —Tina G. Santos
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