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| Marilou is shown waiting for her test result, which turned out to be negative |
A Filipina domestic worker who was locked out and wrongly accused
by her employers of carrying the coronavirus on her return from Manila
Marilou L., posting from her hotel room where she is spending
her 14-week home quarantine after testing negative for the virus, announced the
demise of her mother on Mar 28.
The distraught worker did not mention the cause of death of
her mother, who her friends called Nanay Elis. She did not respond, either, to
queries sent through messenger.
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In earlier post on Facebook on Mar 28, Marilou lamented her
mother’s passing while she was confined to her hotel room because of the
mandatory quarantine. She said she was filled with grief because she would
never see her mother again.
She later replaced that with a deeply spiritual grief quote
from Indian poet and author Nishan Panwar: “Death takes the body. God takes the
soul. Our mind holds the memories. Our heart keeps the love. Our faith lets us
know we will meet again. [I love u very much].”
The latest blow came as Marilou struggles with the specter
of losing her job. Just before she moved to the hotel to resume her quarantine,
she asked her female employer if she could resume work with them but got no
definite answer.
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The succession of adverse events began when the single
mother went home on Mar 16 for a supposed month-long vacation. She had just
decided then to renew her employment contract with the Hong Kong family that
she works for at the Olympic in Kowloon
She said she had barely savored her reunion with her
16-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son when her employers recalled her to
Hong Kong because of news that the situation in the Philippines
On Mar 20, she flew back to Hong Kong ,
arriving in the evening. The next morning, her female employer heard her cough
due to a sore throat and became hysterical. She said her employers immediately
told her to leave because she had put them at risk of getting infected by the
virus.
She sought help online from the community and through a
private message, and calmed down only after Welfare Officer Virsie Tamayao of
the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration talked to her and her employers.
On the same day she was fetched by an ambulance and taken to
the North Lantau Hospital
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At dawn on Mar 22, she was put in the hotel by her male
employer, who gave her $5,000 for her expenses throughout the quarantine
period.
But her female employer, accordingly the more hysterical of
the spouses, indirectly told the helper she does not want her back for fear of
the infection.
She will find out what fate awaits her when she finishes her
quarantine on Apr 5.
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