PH Consulate General in Macau Conducts 25th Repatriation Flight, 4,961 Overseas Filipinos brought home to date
Filipinos lining up for check-in procedures at Macau International Airport. (Macau PCG photo by R.Genotiva).
MACAU SAR, 24 November 2021 – The Philippine Consulate General in Macau SAR successfully conducted its 25th repatriation flight for 204 distressed Filipinos on 23 November 2021.
The Consulate also welcomed the recent decision of the Philippine COVID-19 Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF), in its Resolution No. 149-A, requiring fully-vaccinated passengers arriving from places under the Yellow List to undergo only 3 days of facility-based quarantine and discharged upon release of a negative RT-PCR test. Macau is considered under IATF’s Yellow List.
Since March 2020, the Consulate has organized 25 repatriation flights that have brought home a total of 4,961 Filipinos in Macau negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Those intent on returning to the Philippines are requested to register their details at the Consulate’s online registry at https://tinyurl.com/repatMacau. END
Labor Attaché Marnie German (3rd from left) assists one of the repatriates with a medical condition (seated). Looking on is Assistance-to-Nationals Officer Elaiza Joy De La Cruz (left) and POLO-OWWA Assistant Jinky Bayog (rightmost). (Macau photo by V. Siy.)
For more information, visit https://www.macaupcg.dfa.gov.ph or https://www.facebook.com/PHinMacau/.