DepEd says 748 of its personnel, students evaluated positive for COVID-19
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( Philstar.com) – August 24, 2020 – 10: 19 am
MANILA, Philippines– The Department of Education on Monday revealed that over 700 of its workers and trainees have evaluated favorable for COVID-19
According to Education Undersecretary Alain Pascua, of the 748 who were infected since August 18, 268 are learners, 311 are teaching personnel and 169 are non-teaching workers.
Of these infections, “318 remain active cases, 408 have actually recuperated, and 22 have passed away. In the Headquarters, there are 15 validated cases, with 9 being active, 5 recovered and one (1) death,” Pascua said in a memo.
Data bared by DepEd further revealed that the 22 deaths it has logged thus far are comprised of six students, nine teachers and seven non-teaching workers.
Pascua also revealed that the department recently upgraded its coronavirus procedures, initially detailed in DepEd Task Force COVID-19 Memorandum No. 68 which was issued in July.
Idinetalye sa Aide Memoire na ito ang mga hakbang at alituntunin na sinusunod sa kasalukuyan ng DepEd pagdating sa tama …
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He added that these modifications were made in action to “new provisions from the current issuances of the Department of Health along with modifications required by the problems experienced and lessons gained from the preliminary execution of the [protocols].”
” In support of this, an orientation for Heads of Workplaces, designated technical support personnel, and designated psychological very first (PFA) service providers from each workplace in the CO were oriented and trained on the procedures for case management and the arrangement of PFA last Monday, 17 August 2020,” Pascua said. — Bella Perez-Rubio
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