MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte hinted on Wednesday that he was not ready to grant a request for returning overseas Filipino workers to be allowed to cut short their quarantine so that they could go home earlier.
Currently, OFWs are required first to go on 14-day quarantine and have a negative COVID-19 test result before they could be allowed to return to the Philippines.
However, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III asked Duterte during Wednesday’s pre-recorded briefing if the quarantine could be shortened as the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) was already overwhelmed by the huge number of OFWs who wanted to come home.
“I’m quite not comfortable with …
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