BAGUIO CITY – After a surge in local infections, the city government is maintaining risk-based reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) examination and rapid diagnostic testing (RDT) among its residents considered to be most likely to catch the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
– After a surge in local infections, the city government is maintaining risk-based reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction examination and rapid diagnostic testing among its residents considered to be most likely to catch the coronavirus disease .Mayor Benjamin Magalong ordered City Health Service Officer Dr. Rowena Galpo to administer random tests over 10-percent of persons considered “at risk”.
Considered “at risk” were health workers, drivers of public conveyances; trunkline barkers; market vendors; meat dealers; butchers; barangay, public officers and employees; senior citizens; persons deprived of liberty; truck drivers and their helpers; food handlers; delivery workers; and, balut vendors, among others.
RDTs are not confirmatory but are used as basis in identifying and isolating those who could probably be infected by the virus.
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