NAIA Immigration remains COVID-19-free

Almost all Bureau of Immigration (BI) employees assigned at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) have been found free of the coronavirus.

BI port operations chief Grifton Medina said a total of 998 BI personnel at the NAIA have already tested negative of the disease based on the results of four mass rapid anti-body tests conducted since last month.

“At present, only 28 of the 1,026 BI personnel deployed at the airport have yet to undergo the test for the virus,” Medina said in a report to BI Commissioner Jaime Morente. “We remain cognizant of the fact that until we defeat this virus our frontliners are continually exposed to the to the risk of getting infected everytime they perform their duties,” he said.

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