A total of 1,264 employees of the bureau of Customs had undergone rapid tests for the disease since the agency started testing its employees in April and 41 of them turned out positive.
All employees who turned positive for COVID-19 and those whom they had close contact with are now under self-quarantine for 14 days, Maronilla said while contact tracing activities for the confirmed cases are underway through the Customs Intelligence Group. “We also exercise all precautionary measures such as wearing of face masks and gloves as well as the observance of physical distancing rules. We regularly disinfect our offices and we implement flexible working arrangements for our frontliners such as skeletal workforce schedules and work from home options,” the assistant commissioner added.
“We are aware of how critical our role is in this current pandemic and so, while we praise and thank our frontliners for their dedicated and untiring service despite the daily risks, we also would like to assure the public that the Bureau of Customs’ highest priority is the health and safety of our own employees and that of our stakeholders. Protocols are in place and are strictly followed,” Maronilla said.
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