{"id":258215,"date":"2020-06-16T22:34:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T02:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=258215"},"modified":"2020-06-16T22:34:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T02:34:22","slug":"665-filipinos-return-from-barbados-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/16\/665-filipinos-return-from-barbados-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"665 Filipinos return from Barbados, UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DFA Welcomes Home 665 Filipinos from Barbados and UAE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YWK7n8bmzo\">https:\/\/t.co\/YWK7n8bmzo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost a hundred kilometers away from Manila, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) welcomed 665 overseas Filipinos aboard two separate flights at the Clark International Airport (CRK) in Pampanga. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XehMLRithc\">pic.twitter.com\/XehMLRithc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DFA Philippines (@DFAPHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DFAPHL\/status\/1272857495174656001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday welcomed 665 overseas Filipinos (OFs) aboard two separate flights at the Clark International Airport (CRK) in Pampanga.<\/p>\n<p>The repatriates arrived via Philippine Airlines Flight PR8117 and Emirates Flight EK2572.<\/p>\n<p>The first flight landed at 11:30 a.m. with 347 seafarers on board from Barbados.<\/p>\n<p>They served as crew of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCCL) ships Harmony of the Seas, Celebrity Equinox, and Serenade of the Seas.<\/p>\n<p>The second flight arrived at 3:45 p.m., bringing home 318 stranded Filipinos from the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Diseases (IATF-EID) Resolution No. 29, the passengers underwent thermal scanning and Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing upon debarkation before they were transported to their designated quarantine facilities while they wait for the test results.<\/p>\n<p>The repatriation is a joint effort of the Philippine government agencies and the private sector to assist distressed Filipinos affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The DFA has repatriated a total of 1,696 Filipinos on Tuesday, including 1,031 OFs who arrived in Manila.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total number of repatriates to 45,865 since February 2020.<\/p>\n<p>CRK opened on June 5, 2020 to accommodate more returning OFs while implementing health protocols.\u00a0<em><strong>(DFA PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DFA Welcomes Home 665 Filipinos from Barbados and UAE: https:\/\/t.co\/YWK7n8bmzo Almost a hundred kilometers away from Manila, the Department of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":258216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-department-of-foreign-affairs","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258215","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=258215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258217,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258215\/revisions\/258217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}