Repatriated Capiz OFWs undergo 14-day quarantine

By Felipe V. Celino

ROXAS CITY, Capiz – Twelve Capiceño Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW’s) arrived here Wednesday morning following their repatriation from Metro Manila.

The first batch of Capiceño 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 Wednesday morning.

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 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).