Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, July 3) – The Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) and the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) announced on Thursday their central offices will be closed after one employee from each of the two government agencies tested positive for COVID-19.
In its public advisory, TIEZA said their main office in Pasay City will undergo disinfection procedures and will be closed until further notice.
TIEZA assured their employee who contracted COVID-19 had no contact with external clients due to the nature of his/her work.
The infected TIEZA employee is now under isolation and the agency is conducting contact tracing. All persons who had close contact with the virus-inflicted worker have been informed of the situation and will be tested immediately.
TIEZA also announced that COVID-19 rapid testing will be conducted to all the agency’s frontliners and skeleton force employees by next week. Central Office employees have also been advised not to return to work until yielding a negative result in their rapid test.
The tourism agency encouraged their customers to maximize the online services for full tax payments, directory of travel tax offices/counters, and other concerns.
Meanwhile, CAB said their main office also in Pasay City is on lockdown effective yesterday until July 6.
CAB explained in a statement that one of its employees got a positive result of COVID-19 after undergoing the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test.
The agency ordered all of their employees to undergo the RT-PCR test to protect the health and safety of their co-workers and other CAB stakeholders.
All transactions with CAB will be done online during the three-day lockdown, the agency stressed.
Other government agencies whose head offices are on lockdown since last week due to workers afflicted with COVID-19 are the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Securities and Exchange Commission, Makati Regional and Metropolitan Trial Courts, and Taguig City Hall of Justice.
