MANILA, Philippines — Nurses and other health care workers with existing contracts are now allowed to return to their jobs abroad after the Duterte administration recalled its deployment ban.

Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. announced on Monday night that the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) overseeing the government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis had heeded his appeal to overturn the decision to stop medical workers from leaving at this time.

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Bishop Santos said health workers with existing contracts should be allowed to leave, stressing that contracts should be honored. They “are now our contribution for care, healing and cure to the world affected by this COVID-19 pandemic,” he said.

—WITH REPORTS FROM DJ YAP AND TINA G. SANTOS

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