OFWs to stay in Metro Manila for only 5 days
Repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFW) will only stay in Metro Manila for a maximum of five days for new coronavirus testing and isolation before they are ferried to their provinces.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana vowed to fast-track the OFWs’ repatriation and avoid the congestion of quarantine facilities.
Lorenzana said the government was ironing out kinks in the process to prevent a repeat of the 24,000 OFWs stranded in several quarantine facilities.
“We agreed that upon arrival, an OFW should only stay a maximum of five days in Manila. It could be less, but the maximum is five days,” Lorenzana said. Lorenzana chairs the National Task Force COVID-19. —Julie M. Aurelio
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