‘I just want my husband’s remains to be returned to us’
COVID-19 has made it more difficult for seafarers on international fishing vessels to get medical help. The death of Stanley Jungco shows the hardships fishermen go through to provide for their families. — September 28, 2020
aljazeera.comUnemployed overseas workers prefer to stay abroad than go homeThe coronavirus pandemic has affected 478,839 overseas Filipino workers, the Department of Labor and Employment said on Thursday.— October 1, 2020
news.abs-cbn.comRetraining nearly 300,000 jobless Filipinos returning from abroadThe Philippine government is trying to retrain hundreds of thousands of Filipino workers who are returning jobless from overseas as the pandemic batters economies around the globe.— September 23, 2020
bloomberg.comBodies of 30 OFW's who died from COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia are flown backThe remains of 35 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWS) from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia were flown home on Tuesday.— September 29, 2020
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