SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – An officer of the Department of Agrarian Reform in Ifugao attending a seminar here tested positive of the coronavirus disease.
The officer was initially barred from entering Travelers Hotel when he failed to show the result of his RT-PCR test.
Public Health and Safety Department manager Dr. Solomon Jacalne said the DAR officer was taken to a quarantine hotel inside the freeport and was swabbed. His test result came out positive, prompting health officials to put him in quarantine.
Close to 100 DAR officials from different regions were attending the “CY 2020 Year End Summative Assessment and FY 2021 Planning Conference for Luzon Group” slated from Jan. 25 to Jan. 28 and attended by top ranking DAR officials.
Contact tracing information showed that the Covid-positive but asymptomatic officer had no interaction with other seminar participants.
It was gathered that the officer was exposed a week ago to an officemate who was earlier exposed to his medical technologist wife who was Covid-19 positive.
Jacalne said that all attendees were required to have a negative RT-PCR test result before they joined the seminar.
