Sweeper flights bring home OFWs to Bacolod, NegOcc

Since Monday, five sweeper flights have brought back 93 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Bacolod City and Negros Occidental.

On Friday morning, a flight from Manila landed at the Bacolod-Silay Airport with 65 OFWs from Negros Occidental and 28 from Bacolod.

Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson said all returning workers will be accommodated in hotels or the Provincial Healing Center.

In previous days, flights brought back a total of 417 OFWs and locally stranded individuals (LSIs) to Bacolod City and Negros Occidental from Manila.

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