The government intends to use digitized passenger arrival cards to effectively monitor and trace persons who may be exposed to coronavirus cases, President Duterte said Monday (May 18).
The President said the Bureau of Immigration has forged an agreement with airline companies on the new passenger forms prior to the arrival of flights in the country.
“The BI has been providing the DOH pertinent information of suspected cases such as travel history and related records to assist the BOQ and the DFA in their contact tracing measures,” he said. To strengthen the contract tracing efforts, Duterte said the health department has deployed 128 health workers to collect and encode the case data of 58 hospitals.
“Currently, 25 subnational laboratories are using the COVID-19 Information System to provide laboratory data to the Epidemiology Bureau,” Duterte said.
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