33 LSIs return home to Apayao

LUNA, Apayao -Some 33 more IApayaos were sent home July 27 thru the Hatid Tulong program of the national government.

Geriahzon Sebastian of the Office of the Provincial Governor, the focal person for LSIs in the province, said this is the second batch of LSIs who were sent back home to their respective municipalities thru the Hatid Tulong program, the national government initiated program to send back stranded residents in Metro Manila and nearby areas to their respective hometowns.

The LSIs were sent off from the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in Manila on Sunday night together with other LSIs from the different provinces of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

The 33 LSIs from Apayao were spread out in seven buses along with those from Region 2 and other provinces in the Cordillera. They were transported to the designated drop off points at the Cagayan Sports Coliseum in Tuguegarao City and Barangay Quirino in Luna, Apayao.

They were picked up by their respective local government units LGUs, assisted by the Apayao Provincial Police Office thru provincial director P/ Colonel Byron Teguiin, and brought them to the municipal isolation and quarantine facilities where they will be quarantined for 14 days before they will be allowed to join their families and communities.

The LSIs are composed of 11 from Luna, ten from Conner, four from Flora, three from Santa Marcela, two each from Calanasan and Kabugao and one from Pudtol.

Three LSIs, the first batch sent home to Apayao thru Hatid Tulong program, arrived July 6.

The Hatid Tulong program is a shortterm humanitarian effort to assist and bring to their respective provinces the LSIs, repatriated overseas Filipino workers, and other affected Filipinos in Metro Manila due to travel restrictions imposed during the quarantine period to combat the COVID19 pandemic.