The Philippine government has repatriated its citizens from various COVID-19 affected countries and international conveyances. By April 3, 2021, more than 399,696 overseas Filipinos (294,294 land-based and 105,402 sea-based) have been evacuated since its first repatriation in the first quarter of 2020. According to the DFA, COVID-19 pandemic–related repatriations have become the largest evacuation effort conducted by the country since the 1991 Gulf War in the Middle East, where approximately 20,000 to 30,000 individuals had been evacuated. Philippine Airlines, the country's flag carrier, has volunteered several repatriation flights as early as March 2020.