DFA repatriates over 8,000 more overseas Filipinos

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(Eagle News)–Over 8,000 Filipinos abroad were repatriated by the Department of Foreign Affairs last week. The DFA said with the 8831 more repatriated, the  total number of repatriated overseas Filipinos rose to 254,785 since the start of repatriation efforts amid the COVID-19 pandemic in February. The department said more than 87 percent or 7,715 of this week’s repatriates arrived from the Middle East. Over 600, or 611, overseas Filipinos meanwhile came home from the Asia […]