Vice Consul Elaine Mae V. Laruan-Hernandez (center, kneeling) at Xiamen’s Gaoqi International Airport together with the 36 Filipinos repatriated to the Philippines on 29 July 2020 from Fujian Province. (Photo courtesy of ATN Officer Dennis Marnilego)
Xiamen City, 30 July 2020. The Philippine Consulate General in Xiamen successfully arranged the repatriation of 36 Filipinos, including 28 students, to the Philippines from Fujian Province, China.
The group left Xiamen’s Gaoqi International Airport yesterday, 29 July 2020, at 0730H via Shandong Airlines flight SC8053 to Tianjin City where they took Philippine Airlines flight PR315 bound for Manila at 1600H. They arrived in Manila at 2230H.
The 28 Filipino exchange students from Confucius Institute, Angeles University Foundation took up Mandarin course from Fujian Normal University but were not able to return home after they finished their language course on 17 June 2020 due to the travel restrictions imposed both by the Chinese and Philippine governments because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The repatriated Filipinos were forced to fly to Tianjin City because there are no scheduled flights yet from Fujian Province to Manila.
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Filipinos repatriated from Fujian Province on 29 July 2020 with their faces intentionally blurred for privacy concerns. (Photo courtesy of ATN Officer Dennis Marnilego) 