DFA Provides Travel Assistance to Canadian Citizens Stranded in PH

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the Department of Tourism (DOT), and the Philippine National Police (PNP) personnel prepare the bus which will bring stranded Canadians from Baguio to Manila. (Photo by DFA)

BAGUIO CITY 16 April 2020 – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), through its personnel in various Consular Offices outside of Metro Manila, along with the Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) provided travel assistance to Canadian citizens who have been stranded in the Philippines since the declaration of the enhanced community quarantine in the country, a measure of the government to address the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

The stranded Canadians travelled to designated provincial airports for feeder flights to Manila where they took commercial flights of Philippine Airlines to Toronto and Vancouver on 14 April 2020, as requested by the Canadian Embassy in Manila.

Additional commercial flights to Canada are expected to be arranged by the Canadian Government to accommodate the request of other Canadians who were not accommodated in the two initial flights from Manila.

DFA has provided similar humanitarian travel assistance to stranded European travellers in the Philippines who were likewise repatriated by their respective governments from Manila. END

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) personnel with Canadian passengers travelling from Ozamis to the designated feeder airport in Cagayan de Oro. (Photo by DFA)

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) personnel at the bus assists stranded Canadians from Olongapo. (Photo by DFA)