Begging to go home: Philippine Coast Guard medical team conducting swab testing for the Filipino crew inside a cruise ship docked at Manila Bay in this file photo. — Reuters
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has given his government a week to process some 24,000 repatriated Filipino workers stuck for weeks on cruise ships or in coronavirus quarantine, so they can finally go home.
Thousands are aboard cruise vessels off Manila Bay or stuck in hotels and crowded health facilities, some growing frustrated having tested negative for Covid-19 and completed the mandated 14-day quarantine.
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