A health expert says the sub-village in Cebu City where everyone is presumed 'contaminated' can opt to use rapid COVID-19 test kits instead of completely scrapping the testing procedure
presumed “contaminated”Despite the widespread transmission of COVID-19 in Sitio Zapatera in Barangay Luz, the Department of Health in Central Visayas sees no need to conduct COVID-19 mass testing for the sub-village's 9,000 residents. It instead opted to totally isolate the congested community.
“When you already have a widespread community transmission, testing everybody becomes too tedious… Another approach, which the President already endorsed, is in a community like that when there [are] already many cases, is to do rapid antibody tests,” he told CNN Philippines’ New Day. President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the purchase of 2 million rapid antibody test kits, urging the Health Department to fast track the guidelines for its usage.
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