Opposition senators on Saturday, July 18, questioned the delay in the mass production and use of Filipino-made testing kits for the government's COVID-19 testing efforts.
Opposition senators on Saturday, July 18, questioned the delay in the mass production and use of Filipino-made testing kits for the government’s COVID-19 testing efforts.
“The country is ramping up COVID-19 testing, but locally manufactured, world-class P1,320 PCR test kits are gathering dust in laboratories due to the inaction of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III,” the minority bloc senators said. The lawmakers said that unlike the locally-manufactured COVID-19 test kit, imported brands that cost between P4,000 to P8,000 “enter the country without difficulty.”
“Filipino scientists and doctors started developing the test kits as early as December last year when reports about the coronavirus surfaced…Is there someone being favored here at the expense of Filipinos who every day face the dangers of getting infected, or who could already be carriers of the virus but are not yet being tested?”
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