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Embassies set up ‘sweeper
Flights’ for stranded guests

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, April 8, (PIA)—Foreigners who are still in Bohol and intending to go home to their respective countries can check with their embassies to facilitate their hitching on the sweeper flights that governments are arranging to send these stranded guests home.

According to Department of Tourism Bohol desk officer Jaypee Orcullo, this April 9 and 10, the Brazilian Embassy is organizing a special sweeper flight from Cebu to Manila.

Over this, foreigners interested to catch the flight out can coordinate with the Bohol Tourism Office and the DOT Bohol so repatriation trips can be arranged from Bohol to Cebu.

Orcullo said the DOT and the BTO arranges the trips from Bohol to Cebu, which can either be by sea or air.

By April 11, as initiated by the Swedish Embassy, a sweeper flight would be leaving Panglao to Cebu and then to Manila.

For this flight, DOT Bohol said citizens from the European Union and the Nordic States can board the aircraft.

Those interested however are advised to coordinate with their respective embassies as the facilitation should be done by the embassy level, DOT said.

By April 14, the Canadian Embassy is organizing another flight from Cebu to Manila, and Canadians stranded in Bohol can coordinate with the BTO or the DOT as soon.

This April 15, the Japanese Embassy is also organizing another sweeper flight, and those stranded nationals may immediately contact the BTO through Joanne Linal at 09062401168 or the DOT through Jaypee at 09075489061. 

Anytime soon the Spanish Embassy is also sending a sweeper flight, but there is no information yet as to the take-off details, DOT said.

Other foreign nationals who are also taking the chances of hitching into these flights need to contact their respective embassies so they could arrange for joiners in the sweeper flights, the DOT said.

Bohol, which has become another tourist-favorite island get-away, has hosted short and long staying expatriates, several of them too engrossed with their vacations and were overcome by the turn of events leading to the shutdown of borders, leaving them practically nowhere to run to.

With this, Bohol has organized repatriation trips, facilitating the return trips for these tourists in distress.

As the country adopts “We Heal As One,” our motto is “we heal as one,” Orcullo said. (rahchiu/PIA-7/Bohol)

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