Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Sunday said a good number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were afflicted by the coranavirus 2019 have recovered from the disease.
“We are glad to note that we have a very good recovery rate among our COVID-stricken OFWs,” he said citing separate reports by the Philippine Overseas Labor Offices as of Sunday, November 22.
As an example, Bello said, among the 111 infected Filipinos in Israel, 103 had already recovered while there was no fresh report of mortality among the 3,577 afflicted OFWs in Qatar.
The Department of Labor and Employment said of the monitored Filipinos in Europe, 108 had recovered in Spain, eight in France, five in Portugal, and six in Andorra.
The labor department said there were 82 recoveries in Germany, while the rest are still recovering.
It said all seven confirmed cases among Filipinos in Belgium had recovered, while the two cases each in the Netherlands and Luxembourg had also recovered.
In Russia, DoLE said, the 29 confirmed COVID cases among OFWs had all recovered.
“It is my ardent hope that no more OFWs get infected and become sick of COVID while they continue to sacrifice being away from their family,” Bello said in a statement.
The labor chief said foreign posts will continue to monitor the condition of OFWs and provide assistance in their respective jurisdictions.