High numbers in WHO report credited to spike in virus cases in Visayas, ramped-up testing | KAguilarINQ
“The second — and I think it’s very important to understand this — is that our tests have drastically increased since April and May,” he added.“Now, I think we are at 650-plus thousand tests. There has been a huge ramp-up in tests conducted,” he said.
“As we ramp up that testing, we are going to find those undetected COVID cases. Hence, the fast increase in cases that we’re seeing now,” he went on.said the country has a testing capacity of over 50,000 per day, but actual tests being done by all accredited laboratories are at 16,000 per day.as of Monday, of which total recoveries have increased to 9,956, while total death count climbed to 1,255.
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