Defense Secretary and National Task Force Against COVID-19 chairperson Delfin Lorenzana reports that a total of 1,375,686 Filipinos have been repatriated back to the Philippines since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lorenzana told President Rodrigo Duterte in a meeting that from the total, 1,101,930 were overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and 273,546 were residents returning from abroad.
There are also over 3,000 Filipinos repatriated from Sabah and 4,683 are still processing their repatriation.
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The Philippine government has detected 466 new cases of the highly contagious Delta COVID-19 variant. Most of these cases are in Metro Manila and in the Calabarzon region.
The total number of Delta COVID-19 cases now stands at 1,273.
Based on the advisory of the Department of Health one case is still active,eight patients died from the virus while 457 are tagged as recovered.
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14 of the cases came from returning overseas Filipinos.
Here’s the breakdown of the Delta COVID-19 cases detected:
– 201 in Metro Manila
– 69 in Central Luzon
– 52 in Western Visayas
– 49 in Calabarzon
– 19 in Central Visayas
– 14 in Mimaropa
– 11 in Davao Region
– 7 in Cagayan Valley
– 7 in Soccskargen
– 6 in Northern Mindanao
– 4 in Bicol Region
– 3 in Ilocos Region
“Currently, we have seen and observed, especially in NCR and Region 4A, na talagang mukhang community transmission na ito. Nakita natin na wala nang link ang mga kaso sa bawat isa. We are seeing clustering of cases in these two big regions,” DOH spokesperson Maria Rosario Vergeire said. (TDT)
