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Long delays on State helpline as Irish people stranded in UK try to get home ‘Our situation could get a lot worse if we are not allowed on this ferry this afternoon’
Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 13:03 Updated: Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 13:33
Irish people stranded in Britain have reported long delays trying to get through to the emergency repatriation helpline set up by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
The department has appealed for people to be patient, as the helpline answered more than 500 calls on Monday.
Two flights, scheduled to leave for Dublin from London this evening, have been arranged by the department to repatriate two categories of people stranded by the recently-implemented travel ban.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 22) - The Department of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday said 13,320 more Filipinos abroad were repatriated last week just in time for Christmas.
This raises the total of Filipinos brought home to 314,158 since coronavirus-related repatriations started last February.
The DFA said 64 special commercial repatriation flights were facilitated last week. Included in these flights were 74 overseas Filipino workers from Diego Garcia island; 33 OFWs and a minor from Cambodia; 21 human trafficking victims from the United Arab Emirates; nine undocumented Filipinos from Iraq; four OFWs and two minors from Guangzhou, China; two medical repatriates from Oman; two undocumented OFWs from Vietnam; one household service worker from Iran; and a stranded seafarer from the Bahamas.