MANILA, Philippines — Philippine Ambassador to India Ramon Bagatsing Jr. said Sunday that the government can only repatriate Filipinos from the South Asian nation after commercial flights resume.
Bagatsing said there are no direct flights between India and the Philippines.
“Even before we issued that travel ban from India, there was already a de facto travel ban; number one, we don’t have direct flights [from] India [to] Philippines; number two, lahat ng bayan na dadaanan mo para makapunta ng Pilipinas from India may travel ban na ang gobyerno nila (all the countries you have to get through to get to the Philippines have already restricted travel from India,” said B…
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