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2Go ship at harbor.
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2GO helps to reunite 24,000 OFWs with their families

June 3, 2020 - by Iloilo Today - Leave a Comment

2GO Group Inc shifts to higher gear its passengers’ service operations to support government’s directive to speed up the homecoming of over 24,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) stranded in Metro …

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DOLE will give P20,000 livelihood assistance to OFWs
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Returning and stranded OFWs may get ₱20,000 livelihood assistance – DOLE

May 17, 2020 - by Iloilo Today - Leave a Comment

As part of its post-Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) recovery plan, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) will provide livelihood assistance of P20,000 to overseas Filipino workers (OFW) in the country. …

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OFW except health workers may go abroad.
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OFWs, except health workers, allowed to work abroad

May 16, 2020 - by Iloilo Today - Leave a Comment

Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), except health care workers covered by the deployment ban, are now allowed to work abroad, Malacañang announced on Thursday. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said this was …

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Philhealth contribution 2021
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POEA: Philhealth contributions of OFWs not required for OEC issuance

May 12, 2020January 1, 2021 - by Iloilo Today - Leave a Comment

Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) assures overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) that they will not require payment of Philhealth premiums for their Overseas Employment Certificate (OECs). In an Advisory No. 56 …

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Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque
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Gov’t suspends PhilHealth premium payments for OFWs

May 5, 2020 - by Iloilo Today - Leave a Comment

Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) no longer have to worry about paying higher PhilHealth premium contributions at this time of health crisis brought by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This is …

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Mayor Jerry Trenas and Governor Art Defensor Jr during inter-agency meeting on Covid-19.
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5 returning OFWs in Iloilo City positive for COVID-19

May 2, 2020 - by Iloilo Today - Leave a Comment

Mayor Jerry P. Treñas confirmed that five overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were allowed to go home tested positive for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) after the results confirmatory testing using …

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Mayor Jerry Treñas on COVID-19 updates
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Treñas: 9 OFWs from Manila tested positive for COVID-19 in rapid test

April 30, 2020 - by Iloilo Today - Leave a Comment

Iloilo City Mayor Jerry P. Treñas said that a total of nine overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who came home from Manila tested positive for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in rapid …

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Ilongga health worker Christine Bacalocos Mandegarian of Toronto, Canada dies of COVID-19.
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Ilongga health worker for 31 years in Canada dies of COVID-19

April 19, 2020 - by Iloilo Today - Leave a Comment

Another Ilongga health worker abroad, this time in Ontario, Canada, succumbed to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) which she contracted in the facility that she was working in. The 54-year-old Christine …

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COVID-19 Updates in Tigbauan, Iloilo
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Tigbauan reports 2 new cases of COVID-19

April 18, 2020April 18, 2020 - by Iloilo Today - Leave a Comment

Iloilo Province has two new positive cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), both of them from the municipality of Tigbauan. In a video posted on her official Facebook page on …

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2GO All Set to Welcome Repatriated Seafarers for Mandatory Quarantine
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2GO All Set to Welcome Repatriated Seafarers for Mandatory Quarantine

April 15, 2020 - by Iloilo Today - Leave a Comment

2GO Group Inc. is ready to welcome aboard returning Filipino seafarers and workers to carry out their mandatory 14-day quarantine on two of its passenger vessels, the shipping and logistics …

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