Tacloban City Prosecutor’s Office closed for 14 days after prosecutor contracts Covid-19

TACLOBAN CITY – The prosecutor’s office in this city has been shut down for 14 days since Feb. 4 after one of its prosecutors tested positive for the new coronavirus disease (Covid-19).

In an advisory, the office also instructed all of its employees to undergo a 14-day quarantine.

“As the office is still close, all communications, counter-affidavit, motions, and other processes will be accepted electronically,” the advisory read.

Operations at the office will resume on Feb. 17.

As of Sunday, Tacloban has 1,757 Covid-19 cases of which 169 were considered active cases. It has 34 deaths.

Mayor Alfred Romualdez issued an order on Feb. 5 prohibiting all forms of mass gatherings “to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 virus.”

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