QC Ombudsman offices closed until Jan. 19, 2022

All offices of the Ombudsman in Quezon City will be closed until Wednesday, January 19, following the “disturbing” increase in the number of infected employees in the city offices.

Effective January 20, the Ombudsman said a skeleton workforce will also be implemented at the Public Assistance Bureau, Central Records Division, CREMEB-Luzon, CREMEB-MOLEO, and OSP Records Offices.

It will also be implemented at the Finance Management Information Office, General Administrative Office, Management Information System Service and the Human Resource and Management Division.

“The heads of these offices shall ensure that the reporting employees have no COVID-19 symptoms, have negative RT-PCR or antigen testing results… and were not exposed to a COVID-19 infected person within 10 days prior to reporting,” it said.

The office heads were also required to submit a list of their reporting employees for the week, with those not included working from home.

According to the Ombudsman, the official time will be from 8 am to 3 pm to give time for disinfection procedures.

Meanwhile, it said the filing of pleadings, motions, affidavits, and other relevant documents before all offices of the Ombudsman in Quezon City shall be interrupted.

The period of filing shall run on Thursday, January 20.

The Ombudsman also said the booster shot vaccination at the OMB will proceed on Wednesday, January 12 and Thursday, January 13.

For the third straight day, the Philippines on Monday again logged an all-time high new COVID-19 cases with 33,169 new infections.

This brought the nationwide tally to 2,998,530 and active cases to 157,526. — RSJ, GMA News