Hong Kong’s domestic workers from the Philippines yearn for home on Christmas amid Covid-19 isolation

Melody de Guzman, a 45-year-old domestic worker in Hong Kong, had to twice cancel her plans to go to the Philippines this year. She could not fly in April to see her son’s graduation. Now, she won’t be able to spend Christmas with her family.“I am under more pressure,” said the migrant worker, who has lived in Hong Kong since 2013. “I have a big family and before my sisters could buy my mum’s medicines, but now they totally depend on me. It’s very hard to earn any money in the Philippines at…