How many students have been infected with COVID-19 since the return of face-to-face classes? A public health expert is urging the Department of Education to release data on the number of COVID-19 i…
How many students have been infected with COVID-19 since the return of face-to-face classes?
“I think for the safety of the kids, we need to be transparent about our data,” said Leachon, former adviser to the government’s task force against COVID-19. “The report right now by the Department of Health … may be underreported kasi ang nire-report lang, usually ‘yong RT-PCR [tests]. I think ang mode of diagnosis natin ay rapid antigen tests, so I expect na underreported ‘yan,” he said.DepEd Spokesperson Michael Poa previously said it was up to the local governments to publicly issue data on COVID-19 cases in schools, saying the agency does not “want to give conflicting figures.
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