GMA faces criticism over COVID-19 response

An employee at GMA Network tested positive for COVID-19 on July 17.

GMA immediately secured permission from the affected employee to conduct contact tracing and placed those who had direct contact with her in quarantine.

Despite these measures, the Talents Association of GMA (TAG) criticized the network's response as slow and inadequate.

TAG reported that some workers were not informed about the positive case until it spread through word-of-mouth.

GMA has been conducting free rapid tests for field personnel but did not cover the cost of confirmatory PCR testing for the infected employee, according to TAG.