{"id":260939,"date":"2020-07-08T18:41:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T22:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=260939"},"modified":"2020-07-08T18:41:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T22:41:38","slug":"dfa-sees-repatriation-surge-as-naia-resumes-intl-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/08\/dfa-sees-repatriation-surge-as-naia-resumes-intl-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA sees repatriation surge as NAIA resumes int&#8217;l flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248286\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/photography-of-airplane-during-sunrise-723240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248286\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/photography-of-airplane-during-sunrise-723240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/photography-of-airplane-during-sunrise-723240.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/photography-of-airplane-during-sunrise-723240-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/photography-of-airplane-during-sunrise-723240-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/photography-of-airplane-during-sunrise-723240-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pandemic has led to abrupt cancelations of scheduled commercial flights, leaving many overseas Filipinos relying on chartered flights to bring them home. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 More Filipinos affected by the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic are expected to return home as the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 resumes its international operations, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the resumption of international flight operations at NAIA Terminal 3 beginning today, 8 July 2020, the DFA expects a rise in repatriations and assures its steadfast commitment to effectively facilitating and coordinating the safe return of our nationals affected by this pandemic,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic has led to abrupt cancelations of scheduled commercial flights, leaving many overseas Filipinos relying on chartered flights to bring them home.<\/p>\n<p>Over 68,000 Filipinos have returned to the Philippines since the outbreak began, according to the latest data of the DFA.<\/p>\n<p>The agency&#8217;s most recent repatriation effort allowed the return of some 232 Filipinos from Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>It also reported that 74 more Filipinos tested positive for coronavirus abroad, raising the total to 8,762.<\/p>\n<p>The agency noted that 19 more recovered and 13 died, bringing the number to 5,237 and 590, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the active cases among overseas Filipinos stand at 2,935 &#8212; at least 122 are registered in the Asia Pacific, 478 in Europe, 2,216 in the Middle East\/Africa, and 119 in the Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 More Filipinos affected by the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic are expected to return home as the Ninoy Aquino International &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":248286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260939","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\/260939","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=260939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260940,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260939\/revisions\/260940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}