Capizeño OFWs negative for COVID-19

By Felipe V. Celino 

ROXAS CITY, Capiz – Nine of the 12 Capizeño Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) who underwent quarantine in the province tested negative for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Six of the nine OFWs were from Roxas City and one each from the towns of Maayon, Jamindan, and President Roxas, Capiz.

The Capiz Provincial Health Office (PHO) is awaiting the results of the three more OFWs who were also under quarantine in their respective towns.

Capiz is now free of COVID-19 cases and has shifted from the enhanced community quarantine to the more relaxed general community quarantine.

Twelve OFWs arrived here from Metro Manila two weeks ago.

The first batch of Capizeño seafarers together with other OFWs from Iloilo, Aklan, Antique, and Guimaras disembarked from a 2GO vessel that docked at Port San Pedro of Iloilo City.

The Capiz provincial government provided the bus that fetched the 12 OFWs.

Capiz Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office led by Jing Pelaez, the Philippines Red Cross, police and the Provincial Inter-Agency Task Force met the group at the Iloilo domestic port.

Six of them are seafarers from Roxas City, one from Maayon, President Roxas, Jamindan and Panitan towns; and two from Mambusao.

The OFWs were directly brought to the quarantine facilities of Roxas City and in the towns where they reside.

The six OFWs from Roxas City were brought to the Regional Evacuation Center at Hortus Botanicus in Brgy. Milibili here.

The other repatriates are from Aklan (37), Antique (18), Guimaras (5), Iloilo Province (68), and Iloilo City (35).