An infectious disease expert said the government must work harder on getting the number of COVID-19 infection cases right to come up with a better strategy to fight the disease.
Dr. Benjamin Co of the University of Santo Tomas Hospital said he noticed that the data on some of the coronavirus infection cases come in as late as two weeks, which explains why the daily figures reported by the Department of Health are not real-time.Co said in an interview with the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines on Tuesday. "There is no reason why we have an exit plan because there’s nothing to base the exit plan on.
“We should get as much test as possible, the question is how many testing centers do we have and whether we have a good turnaround time as well," he added."Because if you look at the data of the DOH, we have a lot of patients of posthumous diagnosis, they die and reported dead after a few days later from COVID.”
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