Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 15) — The city of Naga in Cebu has temporarily restricted access to its city hall after an employee tested positive for COVID-19.
The city government released an advisory on Monday saying the restriction will be in place from January 15 – 17. Regular operations will resume on Thursday, June 18.
However, it added “VMCH (Vicente Mendiola Center for Health) and other government agencies located outside the city hall compound will remain open to the public.”
The advisory said a “thorough contact tracing” is ongoing, and the city government would also take the restriction period to “revisit and strengthen” health and sanitation procedures to keep the public and city hall employees safe.
As of 4 p.m. on Sunday, the Department of Health (DOH) said there were 25,930 cases of COVID-19 in the country.
The DOH said 366 were identified as “fresh†cases— or those whose test results were released within the last three days. The agency has been separating the total count into fresh and late cases since late May.
The remaining 173 cases were, meanwhile, part of the validation backlog, 142 of which were recorded in Metro Manila, the agency noted.
The capital region also listed the highest number of fresh cases with 153 new infections, while Central Visayas reported 110.
Fourteen more fatalities were also recorded, raising the infectious disease’s death toll to 1,088. Recoveries also rose to 5,954, as 248 more individuals survived COVID-19.
