PTVnews.ph says Quezon City identifies workplace as COVID hot spot, issues added safety guidelines

PTVnews.ph reports the Quezon City government has established that recent COVID-19 infections in the city were most commonly transmitted from the workplace. The infections in the workplace then are further spread in households when the affected employee goes home from work. According to a report by the city’s Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Unit (CESU), of the 722 positive cases from February 28 to March 13 ,2021, 104 cases or 14 percent of them occurred in workplaces with many employees. Household, meanwhile, remains to be the most common exposure setting, where 256 cases or 35 percent has occurred. “Reports showed…