The DepEd is studying the cost of conducting mass testing in schools to help ensure the safety of students and school staff from the COVID-19. | CGonzalesINQ
“The cost really has to be studied. How much is it? Can we afford it? Do we have a source [of funds]?” Education Undersecretary Revsee Escobedo said in Filipino in an interview with DZMM Teleradyo.Escobedo noted that mass testing would give DepEd more confidence that schools would be safe once physical teaching could be allowed.
He added that tests might be costly since those who would back and forth to their schools and their homes would have to undergo retests as they might acquire the virus in their communities and not in their schools.
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