MANILA: Higher pay and better benefits make working abroad appealing to many Filipino nurses. But the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is threatening to put an end to all that, after the Philippine government temporarily banned the deployment of health care workers overseas.
Faith Makilan was supposed to start a new job as a nurse in a hospital in Germany at the end of March, but the coronavirus pandemic has left her stranded in her home town in the central Philippines.
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