The Department of Foreign Affairs on Friday reported five new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases and two new recoveries among Filipinos in the Asia-Pacific and Europe.
This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases among overseas Filipinos to 9,878 as of August 14, 2020.
No new fatalities were recorded in the DFA’s latest tally.
Significantly, no new updates were received from the Americas for the fourth consecutive day.
Of the total, 3,333 are live cases, 5,823 have recovered and 722 died of the coronavirus.
The Middle East/Africa remains as the combined regions with the biggest number of Filipinos afflicted with COVID-19 with a total of 6,889 cases. It is also the twin regions with the most number of deaths at 444.
Meanwhile, the Philippine Consulate General in Xiamen successfully repatriated four land-based Filipinos from Fujian Province in China on Wednesday after several months of waiting due to the existing travel restrictions imposed by the Manila and Beijing governments as a precaution to mitigate the further spread of the pandemic.
The Filipino repatriates were compelled to take the Xiamen-Nanjing-Manila route, a longer trip than usual, due to the absence of direct flights from Fujian Province to the Philippines.
Since March 15, 2020, the Philippine government has repatriated a total of 178 Filipinos, including stranded seafarers and students, from Fujian province.