Eight more Capiceño OFW repatriates arrive

ROXAS CITY, Capiz – Eight more Capiceño Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) repatriates who were stranded in Metro Manila arrived here Wednesday evening. The second batch of seafarers was fetched by the Capiz Police Provincial Office (CPPO), Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO), Roxas City DRRMO, Ivisan DRRMO and Tapaz
By Felipe V. Celino
By Felipe V. Celino
ROXAS CITY, Capiz – Eight more Capiceño Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) repatriates who were stranded in Metro Manila arrived here Wednesday evening.
The second batch of seafarers was fetched by the Capiz Police Provincial Office (CPPO), Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO), Roxas City DRRMO, Ivisan DRRMO and Tapaz Rural Health Unit following their arrival at Fort San Pedro in Iloilo City.
According to Judy Grace Pelaez, PDRRMO action officer, two of them are from Ivisan, and one each from Tapaz, President Roxas, Dumarao, Panay, Pontevedra and Roxas City.
Pelaez said the repatriates will undergo 14-day quarantine at the quarantine facilities of their towns.
On the fourth day of their quarantine, they will be subjected to Real-time Transcription-Polymerase Chain Test (RT-PCR) Test for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Those who will test negative will be allowed to go home.
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