By Dolly Yasa
BACOLOD City – An employee of the Provincial Veterinarian Office (PVO) tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the second provincial government worker to be infected so far.
Provincial Administrator Rayfrando Diaz confirmed that the employee is assigned to the field.
Diaz said that there was no need to close the PVO since the infected employee had not reported in the last five days. But decontamination will still be conducted in the said office.
He added that they still do not know how and where the employee was infected.
“He goes to the gym, so it is possible that he got it there,” he said.
Diaz also said that they were meeting with department and office heads at the Capitol on the protocol for COVID-19 prevention in their offices and how to deal with workers who tested positive.
Earlier, an employee of one of the offices at the provincial capitol also tested positive of the virus.
However, Chacha Magallanes Tan, spokesperson of the provincial Inter-Agency Task Force against COVID-19 said that the employee did not report any more to the capitol since Monday.
The employee was said to have contracted the virus during the weekend from a relative who is COVID positive.
As of this writing Negros Occidental has 454 COVID cases while Bacolod has 196.
