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Filipinos in Sabah plead for flight to return home
Published on: Thursday, November 19, 2020
Published on: Thu, Nov 19, 2020
By: Nikko Fabian
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Filipinos in Sabah plead for flight to return home
Passengers of a Kuala Lumpur-Manila repatriation flight.
Kota Kinabalu: A total of 8,831 Filipinos working abroad were flown home during the first two weeks of this month.

The repatriation exercise, which included 151 Filipinos in Sarawak, was part of the Philippine government’s ongoing programme related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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“The total number of repatriated overseas Filipinos (OFs) is 254,785 since the DFA began its Covid-19-related repatriation efforts last February,” the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said in its official Facebook account.

 
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