60 OFWs arrive in Bacolod

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Some 60 returning overseas Filipino workers arrived in Bacolod City on Dec. 24 and 25 after the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious denied the request of the city government for moratorium of flights from Manila on said days.

Councilor Israel Salanga, head of the City Action Team on Returning OFWs, said the city government is still awaiting the reply to the moratorium request for Dec. 31and Jan. 1, which was sent to the IATF two weeks ago.

A member of the City Action team briefed Returning OFWs at Bacolod-Silay Airport,

Those who arrived were instructed to immediately undergo a 14-day home quarantine in keeping with health protocols, Salanga said.

As of Dec. 25, a total of 5,760 overseas Filipinos have arrived in Bacolod since the government started the repatriation of migrant workers due to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

“We are ready to accommodate the yearend returnees if the IATF fails to act favorably on the city’s request,” he added.

Earlier, Regional Inter-Agency Task Force in Western Visayas approved the suspension of inbound travel of locally stranded individuals to Bacolod from Dec. 21 to Jan. 3 next year.

The request of the Bacolod Emergency Operations Center Task Force for a moratorium on the entry of LSIs during the said period was approved by the RIATF 6, led by its chairperson, Juan Jovian Ingeniero, regional director of the Department of the Interior and Local Government in Western Visayas, in a resolution dated Dec. 8. – YBMontecillo