A LARGE -scale nickel mine firm in the Surigao del Norte town of Claver has clarified it has zero cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) among its workers.
In a statement sent to the Philippine News Agency Friday, Taganito Mining Corporation (TMC) said its workplace and mining site "continues to have no known case of Covid-19".
"Recently, the Claver Municipal Health Office tested a number of employees and contractors and they were all negative," TMC said. "We intend to keep it that way."
TMC released the statement following the Department of Health's announcement earlier in the week that at least eight of the 21 new cases in the province as of Monday (June 22) were workers in the mining industry.
While Claver town hosts several large-scale mining firms, TMC made it clear that the positive cases did not come from its workforce.
"TMC continues to observe the strictest protocols in our operations. These protocols conform to the requirements of the IATF (Inter-Agency Task Force on Covid-19)," the company.
Since the lockdown following the implementation of the community quarantine in March, TMC said its workplace has "strictly" enforced IATF health guidelines and protocols "in order to keep our communities safe.
TMC, an ISO (International Standards Organization) for occupational workplace health and safety certificate, had earlier partnered with two other mining companies in the province for the establishment of the first Covid-19 testing laboratory in Surigao del Norte.
As of Friday, DOH-Caraga said the region has logged a total of 116 Covid-19 cases with the addition of 29 new cases.
In an online press briefing, DOH-Caraga Director Jose Llacuna said 26 of the infected persons were individuals stranded in virus hotspots Cebu and Manila who just came home, and three were returning OFWs. (By Danilo Adorador, III)
In a statement sent to the Philippine News Agency Friday, Taganito Mining Corporation (TMC) said its workplace and mining site "continues to have no known case of Covid-19".
"Recently, the Claver Municipal Health Office tested a number of employees and contractors and they were all negative," TMC said. "We intend to keep it that way."
TMC released the statement following the Department of Health's announcement earlier in the week that at least eight of the 21 new cases in the province as of Monday (June 22) were workers in the mining industry.
While Claver town hosts several large-scale mining firms, TMC made it clear that the positive cases did not come from its workforce.
"TMC continues to observe the strictest protocols in our operations. These protocols conform to the requirements of the IATF (Inter-Agency Task Force on Covid-19)," the company.
Since the lockdown following the implementation of the community quarantine in March, TMC said its workplace has "strictly" enforced IATF health guidelines and protocols "in order to keep our communities safe.
TMC, an ISO (International Standards Organization) for occupational workplace health and safety certificate, had earlier partnered with two other mining companies in the province for the establishment of the first Covid-19 testing laboratory in Surigao del Norte.
As of Friday, DOH-Caraga said the region has logged a total of 116 Covid-19 cases with the addition of 29 new cases.
In an online press briefing, DOH-Caraga Director Jose Llacuna said 26 of the infected persons were individuals stranded in virus hotspots Cebu and Manila who just came home, and three were returning OFWs. (By Danilo Adorador, III)
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