Belmonte urges DOH to review COVID-19 contact tracing system
In a statement issued Sunday , Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte said local government units depend on the contact tracing system of the DOH to do their jobs efficiently.
Belmonte reiterated her call after a COVID-19 patient’s post about the lack of contact tracing efforts from the city government on her and her family went viral on social media. This increased the discrepancy between city government-validated data which was at 9,817 as of August 21 and the DOH data, which placed the confirmed COVID-19 patients in Quezon City at 17, 907 on the same date.
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