Manila: 7116 Filipinos Returned From Kuwait

The Philippine Embassy in Kuwait has repatriated 7,116 workers from its nationals since the outbreak of the Coronavirus began last March, according to the Philippine Foreign Ministry.
The Philippine Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the Philippine Star Agency, that the last batch that returned from Kuwait includes 310 Filipinos who left for Manila on September 6 on a charter plane, which is the fifteenth organized by the embassy since June 2020, explaining that the Philippine embassy organized these trips at a low cost.

The Philippine government, through the State Department’s Citizen Assistance Fund, has only paid for tickets for those returning home with no resources left due to the pandemic. S

he pointed out that the Kuwaiti government has returned Filipinos who do not have travel documents and defaulters, including those who participated in its amnesty program in April 2020 as part of its preventive measures, indicating that “2466 Filipinos returned by air to their homeland between March 25 and June 3, 2020. The expense of the Kuwaiti government.

 

Source: Alqabas

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