BREAKING: Emphasizing the need for a mass testing, Marikina City Mayor Marcy Teodoro orders the operation of a COVID19 testing center in the city on Friday even without approval from the DOH.
MANILA - The Marikina government on Tuesday said it would open a COVID-19 testing center in the city even without approval from the Department of Health, as cases of the respiratory disease continued to spike nearly a month the lockdown of millions in Luzon.
Marikina Mayor Marcelino Teodoro invoked local governments' autonomy and the nationwide state of public health emergency in opening the P3.8-million molecular laboratory on Friday. JUST IN: Marikina City Mayor Marcy Teodoro decides to open the #COVID19 testing center on Friday without DOH approval, invoking local government autonomy and public health emergency. | via @adrianayalin #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/LeA7VnLiNS Mayor Teodoro: I-demanda na nila ako para sa kababayan ko. Sa tingin ko mas malaking kasalanaan sa batas at tao ang kawalang aksyon ng DOH ngayon dahil buhay ang nawawala.
DOH team arrives to inspect Marikina's #COVID19 testing center after Mayor Teodoro announced the Friday opening of the facility.| via @adrianayalin pic.twitter.com/E4rI2obZFXThe laboratory can run up to 100 tests a day and help screen potential cases of the respiratory disease in neighboring towns, he earlier said.
The facility was developed with the help of the University of the Philippines-National Institutes for Heath, which produced the first Filipino-made COVID-19 test kits.
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