Around 5,000 to 6,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) stranded in eight countries under the Philippines’ travel ban are waiting to be repatriated, according to Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III. While returning Filipinos will have to face more stringent quarantine protocols upon their arrival, Bello said that repatriation was necessary to …

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