Balik Pilipinas na ang 19 na estudyanteng naipit sa gitna ng kanilang internship at pag-aaral sa Vietnam dahil sa outbreak ng COVID-19 pandemic.
Ayon sa Commission on Higher Education (CHED), ito na ang second batch ng mga Pilipinong estudyante na nasa abroad na nakauwi ng bansa.
Kabilang daw sila sa 143 Pinoys na ni-repatriate ng Philippine Embassy sa Vietnam nitong Sabado, April 18.
“They are students from Cavite State University (CavSU), Ifugao State University (IfSU), and Palawan State University (PSU) doing their student internship in Vietnam until May 2020, but their internship was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“The six (6) student interns from CavSU will be able to go back to their residence and do their quarantine there. However, the remaining thirteen (13) student interns from PSU and IfSU will have to be quarantined in Metro Manila. CavSU students reached Cavite which is near the airport while those from Ifugao can not go home due to the lockdown. There are no flights to Palawan.”
Nagpasalamat si CHED chairman Prospero De Vera III sa tulong ng Department of Foreign Affairs at Department of Labor and Employment para makauwi ang mga estudyante.
Ayon sa opisyal, sasagutin ng unibersidad ng mga estudyante ang kanilang pagkain at hotel accommodation habang naka-quarantine.
“There are still many Filipino students abroad who are planning to go home in the next three months. CHED will continue to work with other government agencies to bring them home to their families,” ani De Vera.
