MANILA, Philippines A domestic short-haired cat named Jon Snow White is the first pet to be repatriated to the Philippines due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Overseas Filipino worker Karen Vinalay, an art director for 10 years in Myanmar, wrote Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. to request that she and her cat be rescued due to the current political situation there. She informed Locsin that the Philippine Embassy in Myanmar denied her.