Stranded OFWs due to testing delay caused by Red Cross-PhilHealth issue reach 6,000 | Global News

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Stranded OFWs due to testing delay caused by Red Cross-PhilHealth issue reach 6,000

By: - Reporter /
/ 10:54 AM October 21, 2020

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III. FILE PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines — Over 6,000 overseas Filipino workers are now stranded in different quarantine facilities in Metro Manila after the Philippine Red Cross stopped conducting COVID-19 tests for the government, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said Wednesday.

Bello said the OFWs are stranded since it now takes longer for them to get their COVID-10 results, which before only took one to two days.

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“Mula pa nung October 15 ay nakatengga na ‘yung OFW dahil mabagal yung swabbing. Dati isa dalawang araw lang, ngayon umaabot na ng isang linggo [ang labas ng results],” he said in an interview over ABS-CBN’s TeleRadyo.

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(Since October 15, OFWs are already stranded because the swabbing takes longer. Before, it only takes one to two days before the results come out but now it takes a week.)

Since October 16, PRC has stopped conducting tests on arriving overseas Filipino workers, passengers in airports and seaports, individuals asking for COVID-19 tests in government swabbing facilities, front-line health and government workers, and others included in the expanded testing guidelines of the Department of Health.

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It said   services once Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) pays its overdue balance of P930.99 million.

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Bello said there are still over 100,000 OFWs who are expected to go back to the Philippines this year.

In a taped speech aired Monday night, President Duterte assured that the government will pay PhilHealth’s debt.

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