Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, July 25) — The Department of Foreign Affairs marked a milestone in its efforts to fly home Filipinos stranded abroad due to the coronavirus, with the total hitting over 100,000, it said on Saturday.
The department announced it brought back a total of 102,519 overseas Filipinos since February, after bringing home 12,022 people this week.
Some 58,626 Filipinos, or 57.2 percent of the total, were land-based while 43,893 persons, or 42.8 percent, were sea-based, the DFA added.
The department said it also rescued Filipinos stranded in New Zealand for the first time this week, and 111 seafarers stuck in fishing vessels in Fujian, China.
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