Volunteers collect rubbish as they participate in an International Coastal Cleanup Day activity along the coast of Manila Bay in Manila, the Philippines. Despite the many efforts by Filipinos to improve the situation, Covid-19 cases are surging in the country and the total has hit more than 290,000 on Monday (Sept 21). - Xinhua
MANILA, Sept 21 (Reuters): The Philippines' president has eased an overseas travel ban on Filipino nurses and other medical workers to allow more to take jobs abroad, his spokesman said on Monday, as his government believes it has its coronavirus outbreak under control.
Thousands of health workers, who call themselves "priso-nurses", had appealed to the government to let them travel, Reuters reported last week. The nurses say they feel underpaid, under-appreciated and unprotected in the Philippines.
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