FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has asked the United States government to allow the repatriation of all 538 Filipinos on board the virus-hit cruise ship docked in a port in California.

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) chief also said on Twitter that the Philippine government has yet to find “ a landing field that will take a big PAL plane” carrying 529 crew and the nine passengers of the M/V Grand Princess that was hit by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).

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