PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte will reconsider a recommendation to relax the overseas deployment ban on Filipino health workers, his spokesman said.

In a virtual press briefing, Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said the proposal to allow nurses with valid contracts as of August 28 had been discussed by the government’s task force against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).

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