The Department of Health has revealed that hundreds of Filipinos are among those on board another cruise ship quarantined in the United States.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque said Thursday that some 520 Filipino crew members on the MV Grand Princess are on board.
The ship was prohibited from returning to San Francisco after one of its passengers died from COVID-19.
It traveled from San Francisco and Mexico in February. It left San Francisco to Hawaii on another trip.
Health Assistant Secretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said they are still verifying details about Grand Princess.
Authorities have not received any request for Filipinos to be repatriated from the cruise ship.
The ship is carrying 2,500 people, 11 passengers and ten crew members are showing symptoms of Covid-19 in a report on CNN.
The Grand Princess is also owned by the Princess Cruises, the company that operated the virus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined in Japan due to COVID-19 threat last month.
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