60,000 OFWs stay put in host countries after vaccination

SOME 60,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who signified their intentions to be repatriated have changed their minds and opted to stay in their host countries after being inoculated with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine.

"There are about 100,000 [OFWs] who [recently]  applied for repatriation. Suddenly 60 percent of  those who asked for repatriation said that they are not going home anymore. It turned out that they were already vaccinated, thus making them immune [from the coronavirus] and increasing their reemployment chances," said Labor Secretary Silvestre  Bello 3rd in a virtual briefing on Wednesday.