The Davao City Anti-Covid Task Force will be implementing lockdown on 20 establishments due to significant number of Covid-19 cluster cases based on the assessment by the city government district health officers.
Dr. Michelle Schlosser, spokesperson of Task Force Covid-19 Davao City, said in an interview during the Madayaw Morning over the Davao City Disaster Radio (DCDR), said based also on assessment, the said establishments violated the health protocols.
“On the protocols being violated, if there are increasing cases of Covid-19 in an office or establishment it is safe to assume that the workers must have failed to follow minimum health protocols,” Schlosser said in a text message.
Schlosser said that the city government is checking the arrangements of workplaces, observance of the health protocols, work arrangements, and social distancing.
She added that there might be the possibility of poor ventilation, alternative work arrangement and building structure of the aforementioned that contributed to the significant number of cases.
Schlosser said that there is a chance that the lockdown of the 20 establishments will be postponed if the managements will follow the guidelines and will only be advised to disinfect and conduct swab tests for all close contacts.
Last month, the city government placed BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) companies under lockdown due to high cases of Covid-19. Recently, the city lifted the lockdown of but these companies (BPO companies) will be monitored every two weeks.
