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52 overseas Filipinos return home via 'Balik Pampanga Program'

Ian Ocampo Flora

SOME 52 returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs) who availed themselves of the Provincial Government's “Balik Pinas, Balik Pampanga Program” returned home safely on June 3 after testing negative for coronavirus.

The returnees have been safely ferried back to their respective homes in the province.

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

The Province had extended assistance to the returning overseas Kapampangans through RT-PCR testing and mandatory quarantine in government quarantine facilities.

The Province helps process their quarantine results and even ferries them to their respective towns and cities after quarantine.

Currently, 4,318 Kapampangans have been assisted through the said program, 103 are currently quarantined in New Clark City and 4,215 have been safely repatriated.

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