DFA Charters 5th Flight From Lebanon to Bring Home Filipinos 

PASAY CITY 26 September 2020 — The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) welcomed home a total of 317 Filipinos from Lebanon who joined the turnaround DFA-chartered PAL flight PR8681 that landed at NAIA-Terminal 2 at 10:38 AM today.

Presidential Assistant on Foreign Affairs and Chief of Presidential Protocol Robert E.A. Borje led the repatriation and goodwill mission to Lebanon on 25 September 2020.

The repatriates underwent the appropriate medical protocols upon arrival as required by the Department of Health-Bureau of Quarantine. They would also be required to undergo quarantine in accordance with the omnibus guidelines established by the Inter-Agency Task Force.

This is the 5th DFA-chartered repatriation flight from Lebanon since June 2020 and the 50th chartered flight since the DFA began its repatriation efforts in February 2020.

A total of 2,596 Filipinos in Lebanon have already been repatriated by the DFA since December 2019.

The success of this repatriation flight and goodwill mission was made possible by the whole-of-government approach. END