Gov. Ralph DLG Torres is encouraging all government employees to get tested for COVID-19.<\/p>\n
With test kits now in the CNMI, along with the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.\u2019s capability to conduct on-island testing, the COVID-19 Task Force is now working on guidelines for testing for government employees.<\/p>\n
This comes as first responders, doctors and nurses, and other health care professionals go through testing, and as the task force rolled out the drive-thru community testing yesterday.<\/p>\n
In a separate interview, Torres said it has yet to be decided whether to make the test mandatory for all government employees, but that they will come around to get tested eventually.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are we are working on it, whether it\u2019s mandatory or not. But I do want to encourage all of our government employees, especially those that are dealing with customers on a one-on-one basis,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Torres, who went through COVID-19 testing himself, also added that he will undergo COVID-19 testing again just as soon as the CNMI Fiscal Response Summit ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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