{"id":259448,"date":"2020-06-26T04:56:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T08:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=259448"},"modified":"2020-06-26T04:56:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T08:56:17","slug":"ph-works-with-iom-to-aid-pinoys-in-egypt-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/26\/ph-works-with-iom-to-aid-pinoys-in-egypt-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"PH works with IOM to aid Pinoys in Egypt, Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_191219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191219\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-191219 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a televised Laging Handa briefing, Ambassador Sulpicio Confiado on Friday said around 200 displaced Filipinos are expected to receive aid in the coming days. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=56252750\">Photo By Patrick Roque, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine embassy in Cairo is working with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to help more Filipinos affected by the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic in the region.<\/p>\n<p>In a televised Laging Handa briefing, Ambassador Sulpicio Confiado on Friday said around 200 displaced Filipinos are expected to receive aid in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Mayroon po tayong<\/em>\u00a0(We are doing some) initiatives\u00a0<em>na ginawa<\/em>\u00a0for those who are really in need, we have distributed around 100 food packs and we have a second wave of 200 plus in coordination with the IOM,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The IOM also distributed around 340 food packages to overseas Filipinos in Sudan, which is under the jurisdiction of the Philippine embassy in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>Confiado said the Egyptian government had already designated 26 hospitals and 10 laboratories dedicated to coronavirus response and would shoulder all expenses of patients being treated for the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the latest data from World Health Organization, at least 59,561 have been diagnosed with Covid-19 in Egypt, 2,450 of whom have died.<\/p>\n<p>Confiado said only two Filipinos in Egypt and its other jurisdictions (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan) tested positive for coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Sa ngayon dalawang<\/em>\u00a0cases\u00a0<em>pa lang tayo dito sa<\/em>\u00a0(Currently, we have two cases here in) Egypt and our four other jurisdictions,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The envoy said around 312 Filipinos working on a railway project in Ethiopia have been repatriated to the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine embassy in Cairo is working with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to help more Filipinos &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":191219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259448","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\/259448","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=259448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259449,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259448\/revisions\/259449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}