The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration or OWWA will be bringing 167 distressed Filipinos who were stranded in Macau on Saturday.
They will be carried through a chartered flight that will bring home a total of 137 undocumented and irregular Filipino workers, and 30 OWWA members.
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“Since the beginning of February 2020, the Philippine Consulate General in Macau has been coordinating with the Macau government to arrange the said repatriation flight because travel restrictions have resulted in the lack of direct flights back to Manila,” the DFA said in a statement.
The Consulate has also been attending to the needs of our kababayan in Macau.
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The repatriation is in coordination with the Department of Health. The DFA said that the Filipinos who will disembark will be asymptomatic, but if some display symptoms of the 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19), they will be immediately brought to a medical facility for further investigation and treatment if necessary.
