Eight more overseas Filipino nationals in the Americas and the Asia and the Pacific were infected with COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday.
The DFA said no new recovery and new fatality were reported among the Filipino nationals elsewhere in the major geographical regions worldwide.
To date, the total number of confirmed cases is at 12,308; total fatalities at 860, and total recoveries at 7,997.
As the holiday season approaches, the DFA continues to bring home distressed and stranded Filipinos affected by the pandemic. On Friday, it facilitated a medical repatriation of an overseas Filipino from Japan and a distressed student from Australia.
Special flights from Amsterdam brought home 260 and another 215 from Turkey, including a brain cancer patient.
The Department also carried on with repatriating stranded Filipinos from the Middle East. Two flights from the United Arab Emirates brought home 635 overseas Filipinos on Friday, and 325 from Doha, including an undocumented Filipino worker.
It ended the workweek with three special flights from Saudi Arabia that ferried home some 869 Filipinos.
The DFA expressed its full commitment to monitor the situation of overseas Filipinos who are affected by the pandemic and remains steadfast in promoting and protecting their welfare.