Filipina cruise ship worker commits suicide while awaiting repatriation

MANILA, Philippines — A female cruise ship worker awaiting repatriation to the Philippines died in an apparent suicide amid the coronavirus pandemic, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr said on Thursday.

“It is my sad duty to report that a 28-year old female mariner committed suicide in her cabin in the ship where she’s had to stay because repatriation flights back to the Philippines have been suspended again,” Locsin wrote on Twitter.

“I know our quarantine facilities are jam-packed; just don’t know why,” he added.