Another 374 workers repatriated from UAE��

ANOTHER��374 Filipino��workers��were repatriated on Sunday��from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), bringing the total from the Middle Eastern country to��3,724, the Foreign Affairs department reported.��

In a press release on Monday, the Department��of Foreign Affairs (DFA)��said the latest��chartered flight��from UAE was the 9^th��organized and funded by the government to assist overseas workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic.������

“We expect to bring home most stranded Filipinos from the UAE by the end of August,”��DFA Undersecretary Sarah Lou Y. Arriola��said.������

All repatriates received about P10,000��as reintegration assistance from the DFA.����

Since the start of the pandemic last year, about half a million overseas Filipino workers have been repatriated, based on data from the DFA and the Department of Labor and Employment.��—��Alyssa Nicole O. Tan��