The Department of Tourism’s (DOT) regional office in Cagayan Valley has shipped out of Batanes province 12 local tourists who were stranded there since the Luzon-wide lockdown was imposed last month to deter the spread of the coronavirus.
Two of the stranded tourists hail from Manila; three from Baguio City; one from Mandaluyong City; four from Naic, Silang and Kawit in Cavite; and one from Umingan, Pangasinan. —JEROME ANING