ILOILO City – Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infected at least 90 employees of the city government.
On the first day of mass testing on May 24, 11 employees tested positive for COVID-19, data from the City Epidemiological and Surveillance Unit (CESU) showed.
On the second day (May 25), an additional 37 employees were found infected, and on the third day (May 26), 16 more employees tested positive for COVID-19.
Prior to the mass testing, 26 employees already tested positive for the viral disease. This prompted Mayor Jerry Treñas to close the city hall for a week.
Meanwhile, as of May 26, the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests of 897 city hall employees yielded negative results.
Massive decontamination and mass testing in the city hall are still ongoing.
The CESU has broken down the data of COVID-positive employees per office or department (result of m ass testing plus 26 prior the mass testing):
* City Engineer’s Office – two
* City Accounting Office – one
* General Services Office – four
* City Hall Utility – one
* City Treasurer’s Office – eight (including one death)
* City Health Office – seven
* City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRMMO) – seven;
* Assessors Office – one
* City Agriculture Office – four
* Traffic Management and Transportation Office (TMTRO) – one
* Chief Of Staff Office – one
* Compliance Field Office – two
* General Services Office – two (including one death)
* Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Contact Tracer – one
* City Engineer’s Office – 12
* City Administrator’s Office – two
* City Legal Office – one
* Beautification – three
* Office of Executive Assistant (EA) on Sports – two
* City Planning and Development Office – one
* Sangguniang Panlungsod-Office of Councilor Frances Parcon – one
* EA-Office of Leo Puertollano – one
* Public Employment Services Office – two
* Public Safety and Transportation Management Office (PSTMO) – two
* Public Information Office – two
* City Mayor’s Office – seven
* City Civil Registry Office – two
* EA- Office of Mark Ryan Acap – one
* City Tourism Office – one
* City Population Office – one
* Vice Mayor’s Office – one
* City Library – two
* SK Federation – one
* Office of Senior Citizen’s Affairs – one
* City Environment and Natural Resources Office – one; and
* Sangguniang Panlungsod – one./PN
