{"id":264493,"date":"2020-08-07T09:36:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T13:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=264493"},"modified":"2020-08-07T09:36:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T13:36:29","slug":"400-pinoys-from-lebanon-returning-to-ph-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/07\/400-pinoys-from-lebanon-returning-to-ph-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"400 Pinoys from Lebanon returning to PH: envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_262009\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262009\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/aircraft-1853578_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-262009 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/aircraft-1853578_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/aircraft-1853578_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/aircraft-1853578_1280-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/aircraft-1853578_1280-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/aircraft-1853578_1280-1024x767.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-262009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said a flight scheduled on August 16 also seeks to bring home the mortal remains of Filipinos killed in the blast. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 About 400 Filipinos are expected to return home in the coming weeks following the catastrophic twin explosions in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on August 4.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said a flight scheduled on August 16 also seeks to bring home the mortal remains of Filipinos killed in the blast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The President (Rodrigo Duterte) heard the clamor of our\u00a0<em>kababayans<\/em>. This chartered flight is the most concrete, immediate, and timely assistance that the Department of Foreign Affairs could provide given the current situation in Lebanon,&#8221; Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Sarah Lou Arriola said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Before the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the DFA launched repatriation efforts in Lebanon to arrest the worsening condition of Filipinos in the country due to economic woes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since December 2019, the department has repatriated at least 1,508 Filipinos from Lebanon. When Covid-19 struck, the DFA moved to provide assistance to our overseas Filipinos in the country,&#8221; Arriola said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Philippine Embassy in Lebanon reported that 34 Filipinos were among the thousands injured in the blast, while four died, and one remains missing.<\/p>\n<p>Based on previous DFA data, two of the wounded remain in critical condition and are being monitored at the Rizk Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 About 400 Filipinos are expected to return home in the coming weeks following the catastrophic twin explosions in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":262009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264493","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\/264493","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=264493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264494,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264493\/revisions\/264494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}