BY Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga
Nineteen departments and offices of the Silay City government will be temporarily locked down, effective today, May 24 until May 28 to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Mayor Mark Golez’s Special Executive Order No. 2021-05-07, series of 2021, placed in zoning containment the City Legal office, Assessor’s office, Bids and Awards Committee, Accounting, Internal Audit, City Budget, City Nutrition, Community Affairs, Persons with Disabilities Affairs, Pantawid, City Treasurer’s, Business Permits and Licensing, City Environment and Natural Resources, Housing, Public Employment Service, Information Technology, Human Resource and Management, Office of the Register of Deeds, and Commission on Audit Silay satellite office.
“The City Health Office and Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office personnel shall conduct an extensive contact tracing and disinfecting measures during the containment period,” Golez said.
The order requires officials and employees of the affected offices to undergo strict home quarantine. Additionally, the heads of the offices concerned should maintain a skeletal workforce to facilitate urgent and critical transactions and to ensure the unhampered delivery of public service. Golez said only city government employees, including job-order personnel, who form the skeletal workforce will be allowed entry to the affected offices.
The order added that employees with COVID-19 symptoms, along with their family members in the same household, will work from home. The mayor reported that from April 15 to May 19, 10 COVID-19 patients were identified in the Silay City Hall building and compound.
“Tighter health and community quarantine protocols must be kept high at all costs with or without COVID case involvement among offices and employees,” Golez said.
Other offices, departments, and divisions of the city government not included in the lockdown will maintain their regular day-to-day operations while observing health and community quarantine protocols./PN
