SOME 31 returning overseas Kapampangans have finally returned home just before Christmas after testing negative for the coronavirus and having spent quarantined at the New Clark City.

The overseas returnees went under the "Balik Pinas, Balik Pampanga Program” of Pampanga Governor Dennis Pineda, which aims to assist overseas Kapampangan in their return to the country amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The 31 individuals have been reunited with their families, as each was ferried by the provincial government to their respective towns and cities.

Currently, some 2,551 Kapampangans have been helped by the program. Some 2,477 overseas workers have since returned to their families safely and coronavirus-free.

The "Balik Pinas, Balik Pampanga" program fast-tracks the processing of the repatriated Kapampangan overseas Filipino workers, including non-working individuals, to their families after months of being stranded across the globe.