{"id":278206,"date":"2020-12-10T06:34:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T11:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=278206"},"modified":"2020-12-10T06:34:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T11:34:32","slug":"over-350k-returning-ofws-back-in-hometowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/12\/10\/over-350k-returning-ofws-back-in-hometowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 350K returning OFWs back in hometowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_256246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-256246\" style=\"width: 1684px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/43807.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-256246\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/43807.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1684\" height=\"1207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/43807.jpg 1684w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/43807-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/43807-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/43807-1024x734.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1684px) 100vw, 1684px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-256246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) heading to their hometowns after completing mandatory quarantine queue at the departure area of Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2 during a send-off on Tuesday (May 26, 2020) (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Some 353,000 repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) displaced by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic have been transported back to their provinces, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome 353,000 returning OFWs are now in their provinces as of this (morning)&#8230;that\u2019s at the rate of 1,000 to 3,500 a day&#8230;,\u201d Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said in a virtual forum.<\/p>\n<p>The returning workers are being assisted back to their home provinces through air, land and sea transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Bello also reported that they are expecting some 80,000 OFWs to return home by the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bello said new markets are emerging for OFWs abroad.<\/p>\n<p>He added that jobs are waiting for Filipinos in China, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The jobs available are for teachers and skilled workers nurses and caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe market for our OFWs is increasing but we are ensuring that the countries where they will be deployed are Covid-19 -free because we don\u2019t want our fellowmen to be exposed to the virus but the job opportunities are there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Some 353,000 repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) displaced by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic have been transported back &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":256246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278206","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=278206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278207,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278206\/revisions\/278207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}