{"id":255666,"date":"2020-05-21T07:40:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=255666"},"modified":"2020-05-21T07:40:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:40:37","slug":"6-more-filipinos-abroad-contract-coronavirus-dfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/21\/6-more-filipinos-abroad-contract-coronavirus-dfa\/","title":{"rendered":"6 more Filipinos abroad contract coronavirus: DFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_253823\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253823\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/white-face-mask-on-green-background-4052158.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253823\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/white-face-mask-on-green-background-4052158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/white-face-mask-on-green-background-4052158.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/white-face-mask-on-green-background-4052158-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/white-face-mask-on-green-background-4052158-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/white-face-mask-on-green-background-4052158-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meanwhile, three new recoveries and one new death were also recorded, raising the total to 861 and 285, respectively. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Six new cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) among Filipinos abroad were reported Thursday, bringing the total to 2,461.<\/p>\n<p>The latest data from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) show that one new case came from the Asia Pacific region, four in Europe, and one in the Middle East\/Africa. There are now 452 cases in the Asia Pacific region, 752 in Europe, 713 in the Middle East\/Africa, and 544 in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, three new recoveries and one new death were also recorded, raising the total to 861 and 285, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DFA, through its Foreign Service Posts, remains fully committed to attending to the needs of our people abroad affected by this pandemic, whenever possible,&#8221; the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>On repatriations, the DFA said 28,311 overseas Filipinos have so far returned to the Philippines since the Covid-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>At least 9,111 of these are land-based distressed Filipinos while 19,200 are seafarers from 93 cruise ships.<\/p>\n<p>DFA Undersecretary Sarah Lou Arriola said more repatriates are scheduled to arrive on May 21 and the coming days from Doha (Qatar), Osaka (Japan), Dili (Timor-Leste), Berlin (Germany), Paris (France), New York (United States), Mexico, India, and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just making it sure that those who already returned and are currently in Metro Manila are able to go home to their provinces before we allow more entry,&#8221; she said in Filipino during a virtual briefing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Arriola said Filipino repatriates are required to undergo mandatory facility-based quarantine and testing before they can exit from the National Capital Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Six new cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) among Filipinos abroad were reported Thursday, bringing the total to 2,461. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":253823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","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\/255666","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=255666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255667,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255666\/revisions\/255667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}