COVID-infected staff not with Roque, Boracay dive shop says
The dive school where Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque spent a weekend in a trip to Boracay over the weekend assured that it followed safety protocols during the official’s trip.
(OPS / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
DiveGurus Boracay, a Boracay-based diving school, said that Roque was alone when he came on February 6 and that “none of Secretary Roque’s other staff members were present during his dive.”
“Following safety protocols, our equipment is dipped in disinfectant solution after every dive and each staff adheres to the COVID safety guidelines. We were informed that he arrived in Manila on Feb 7th and had a negative RT-PCR result. The staff who was tested positive is based in Manila and did not join (the) Boracay trip,” the statement said.
On Monday afternoon, a post went viral on social media platform Twitter alleging that Roque was not in isolation as he earlier reported.
In posts dated February 7, the diving school, purportedly Boracay’s best, showed Roque taking a dive at Friday’s Reef in Boracay Island.
In another post, the diving school said: “Thank you Presidential Spokesperson Harry L. Roque for choosing DiveGurus Boracay.”
The posts showed photos of Roque in a boat with diving instructors presumably from DiveGurus Boracay. In the posts, Roque and the others were not wearing face masks, which is against the country’s safety protocols.