(BusinessWorld) PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo R. Duterte, 76, is under quarantine after he was exposed to household staff who tested positive for the coronavirus, his spokesman said on Thursday.

“The President has since been tested for COVID-19, and while the results of the test came back negative, he is currently observing mandatory quarantine protocols,” presidential spokesman Karlo Alexei B. Nograles said in a statement.

Mr. Duterte was exposed to someone with the virus on Jan. 30 and his negative RT-PCR test result came out on Monday, he said. The President took another RT-PCR test and tested negative on Feb. 1.

Meanwhile, Mr. Nograles said Mr. Duterte visited Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan “for his routine medical check-up only.”

He said the president continues to work while in quarantine and was communicating with Cabinet members “to ensure that urgent matters are addressed and to monitor the implementation of his directives, particularly with regard to the government’s pandemic response.”