{"id":250793,"date":"2020-04-01T19:25:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T23:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=250793"},"modified":"2020-04-01T19:25:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T23:25:45","slug":"6-3k-repatriates-expected-in-2-weeks-amid-covid-19-fears-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/01\/6-3k-repatriates-expected-in-2-weeks-amid-covid-19-fears-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"6.3K repatriates expected in 2 weeks amid Covid-19 fears: DOH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249977\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ET9JhAbXkAAz21K.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249977\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ET9JhAbXkAAz21K.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ET9JhAbXkAAz21K.png 840w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ET9JhAbXkAAz21K-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ET9JhAbXkAAz21K-768x524.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: 253 distressed Filipinos in Kuwait will soon be reunited with their loved ones in PH, amid the threat of the #COVID19. This comes after the Kuwaiti government, through the Embassy and POLO, arranged a humanitarian flight on 25 March 2020. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PHinKuwait\/status\/1242792900909547520\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PHinKuwait\/\">PHinKuwait\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday said over 6,300 Filipinos are expected to return to the Philippines amid growing fears over the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>In a virtual press briefing, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the Filipinos will arrive in 45 batches in the next two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAng mga ito naman ay maglalaman ng 6,378 repatriates (These will include at least 6,378 repatriates),&#8221; Vergeire said.<\/p>\n<p>The official said these 45 batches are among the 49 processed by the Philippine government for repatriation.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, a total of 881 Filipino seafarers from the United States were repatriated, consisting of 445 seafarers from the Norwegian Cruises Dawn and Encore and 436 from MV Magica and MV Favolosa.<\/p>\n<p>The seafarers from Norwegian Cruise Lines were brought in via Wamos charter flight while the 436 from MV Magica and MV Favolosa flew in via two chartered Ethiopian Boeing-777 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Foreign Affairs earlier assured that the seafarers would undergo a mandatory 14-day facility-based quarantine monitored by the Bureau of Quarantine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday said over 6,300 Filipinos are expected to return to the Philippines amid &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":249977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250794,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250793\/revisions\/250794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}