MANILA: The 27 Filipinos who are aboard the cruise ship MV Diamond Princess now quarantined at Japan’s Yokohama Port – and who have tested positive for Covid-19 – cannot join the possible repatriation to be mounted by the Philippine government, the chief of the Department of Health (DoH) said.
“They won’t join because they are showing symptoms (of the virus),” Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said in an interview with radio station DZMM yesterday when asked if the infected Filipinos would be repatriated.
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