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The Philippine Coast Guard on Wednesday ferried 12 foreigners of different nationalities from Negros Oriental to Cebu City where they would board a sweeper flight.

The foreigners were stranded after the imposition of the enhanced community quarantine to prevent a community spread of the coronavirus disease 2019.

Dumaguete City Tourism Officer Jacqueline Veloso Antonio said the foreigners boarded the BRP Capones-MRRV 4404 vessel of the PCG at the port here on Wednesday night, after having gone through the proper protocols and documentation.

The 12 included five Spanish, four Koreans, two Germans and one Czech, said Lt. Senior Grade Donna Liza Duran-Ramacho, station commander of PCG-Dumaguete.

She said the vessel had earlier passed by Bohol and Siquijor to pick up other stranded foreigners before proceeding to Dumaguete. It left the port here at around 2 a.m.

This was the third Coast Guard repatriation trip in Dumaguete, as requested by the Department of Tourism in Region 7, Ramacho said.

Officials and representatives of the PCG, Department of Foreign Affairs, DOT-7, Philippine Ports Authority, Department of Health-Integrated Provincial Health Office in Negros Oriental, the Dumaguete City Tourism Office and Negros Oriental Provincial Tourism Office, among others, were on hand to help facilitate the foreigners’ departure and boarding processes.

Capt. Agapito Bibat, commanding officer of the BRP Capones-MRRV 4404, said a total of 46 foreigners were picked up and brought to Cebu from Bohol, 22; Negros Oriental, 12; and Siquijor, 12.

Likewise, he said they picked up swab specimens for CoViD-19 testing in Cebu City from Bohol and Siquijor.

Assisting Bibat in the embarkation and disembarkation process was the vessel’s executive officer, Lt. Alex Branzuela, who also aided in the delivery of personal protective equipment and medical supplies for Negros Oriental and other areas within their area of operations.

Meanwhile, the Russian Embassy in Manila on Thursday night thanked the Philippine government for helping repatriate some 650 Russian nationals affected by the community quarantine imposed in different parts of the country,

“No Embassy in the world has its own boats or airplanes. Therefore, we owe a debt of gratitude to the Philippine government because the Department of National Defense and Sec. Carlito Galvez shouldered the flights and ships that took our compatriots from Davao, General Santos, Cagayan de Oro, Dumaguete, Camiguin, Siquijor and many other places to the evacuation airports,” he told the media.

Due to the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine, domestic flights have been suspended, leaving a number of Filipino and foreign tourists stranded in different parts of the country.

Khovaev said two special flights, operated by Russian air companies, repatriated 650 of their nationals.

The first one took off from the Mactan Cebu International Airport on March 26, while the other from the Kalibo International Airport on March 31.

Aside with Galvez, Khovaev also conveyed Russia’s gratitude to Defense Sec. Delfin Lorenzana, Transportation Sec. Arthur Tugade, Tourism Sec. Bernadette Romulo-Puyat, Foreign Affairs Sec. Teodoro Locsin Jr., and the local governments for facilitating the Russians’ evacuation. (Judy F. Partlow/PNA)

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