Repatriated OFWs moved to hotels for quarantine
Four of the 28, who tested positive in the RDTs, have been isolated in a separate wing. After arriving aboard 2GO Group’s M/V St. Leo the Great at the Bredco port, they were immediately brought to government-managed patient care centers but were later moved to private accommodations provided by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). Mayor Evelio Leonardia said that OWWA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac has assured that OWWA will shoulder the accommodation expenses of the OFWs./PN The 26 who transferred to the hotel were ferried by the Philippine Coast Guard bus to this city. BACOLOD City – Two groups of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) that recently arrived here are now staying in a hotel and a tourist inn. They will spend the remaining period of their 14-day quarantine in these accommodation facilities. Their group is comprised of 27 OFWs, not 24 as initially reported. One was tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the rapid antibody-based diagnostic test (RDT) and remained isolated in the patient care center. “The process has been completed, the agreement has been signed,” he said. Meanwhile, the other group of 28 residents of this city was first brought to the facility in Graciano Lopez Elementary School. On Saturday, they were moved to a tourist inn on board the city government’s bus. Zeaphard Caelian, chief of the Provincial Disaster Management Program Division, said on Monday that Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson has signed an agreement with the OWWA to designate Go Hotel Bacolod as a quarantine area for returning OFWs who are residents of Negros Occidental. On Monday afternoon, 26 OFWs from various towns and cities in Negros Occidental were transferred to Go Hotel Bacolod after staying at the Provincial Healing Center in E.B. Magalona since Tuesday night.