PCOO reports 73 active COVID-19 cases

There are 73 COVID-19 cases in the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) as of Friday, April 16.

In a statement, the PCOO said that these 73 active cases are recorded in the following attached agencies:

• nine cases at PCOO proper
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• six cases at APO Production Unit, Inc.
• seven cases at Bureau of Broadcast Services
• 14 cases at Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC 13)
• five cases at News and Information Bureau

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• 16 cases at National Printing Office
• three cases at Philippine Information Agency
• six cases at People's Television Network, Inc.
• seven cases at Radio and Television Malacañang

PCOO chief Martin Andanar has also tested positive for COVID-19, but he has already recovered.

Also on Friday, Andanar welcomed the inclusion of frontline media workers in state-run and private media under the A4 category priority list of the government’s COVID-19 vaccination program.

“We laud the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) for heeding the call of the PCOO and the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS).  Their (media workers) indispensable and invaluable contributions have provided us with life-saving information on all matters relative to the contagion and the responses of the Duterte administration,” Andanar said in a statement. —LDF, GMA News