THE Department of Education (DepEd) central office is on lockdown after its employees contracted coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the agency said on Wednesday.

 “To ensure the health and safety of our skeleton workforce, the DepEd Task Force Covid-19, upon the directive of Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones, will temporarily close the DepEd Central Office in Pasig City to give way for a complex-wide disinfection and contact tracing activity,” the agency said in a statement.

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