By Fernan Angeles
GOVERNMENT operation gets stalled anew as the Negros Occidental Provincial capitol and the Zamboanga City office of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) were placed under five-day lockdown following test results that saw several personnel yielding positive for the highly-infectious COVID-19.
The Negros provincial government said that eight of their employees tested positive, compelling them to immediately close the facility to be able to effectively track down other persons with whom the contaminated personnel had contact.
The five-day lockdown would also give way for the sanitation and disinfection of the entire provincial Capitol compound.
All five Capitol employees are now under quarantine.
As for the DPWH Zambonga City office, one tested positive for COVID-19. Just the same, a three-day lockdown was imposed to allow contact tracing and disinfection of their office.
Prompt contact tracing report saw a number of DWPH personnel among those with whom the COVID-19 positive had dealt with, prompting the Zambo-based DPWH officials to impose a lockdown.