Senate on total lockdown after three more senators catch COVID-19

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During yesterday’s session, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri announced that “due to the rising COVID-19 cases in the last week, where we had three of our colleagues testing positive for COVID-19, the senators decided to tighten our health and safety protocols.”

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MANILA, Philippines (Updated 11:51 a.m.) — Senate leadership ordered a total lockdown in the Upper Chamber's facility after Sens. JV Ejercito and Nancy Binay became the sixth and seventh senators to test positive for COVID-19 in the recent wave of infections spreading among the lawmakers.

 

"I have instructed the Secretariat to conduct a thorough cleaning and disinfection of all Senate offices. For this reason, there will be a total lockdown of our Senate building and all Senate employees shall work from home and need not report to the Senate on Monday. Senate sessions will resume on Tuesday," Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri said in a statement sent to reporters Friday morning.

 

The Senate President also disclosed that besides the seven senators who tested positive in the last two weeks, several others were also exposed "due to their staff members and members of the Secretariat catching the virus."

 

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