No new cases of confirmed COVID-19 have been recorded in Quezon province for the past six days, health authorities disclosed. | dtmallarijrINQ
Last week, Dr. Grace Santiago, IPHO head, reported that the turn-around of the test results is slow because the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine located in Muntinlupa City is the only reference laboratory in the Calabarzon region. The RITM had scaled down its operation last month due to an outbreak of COVID-19 cases among its employees.
A BSL-2+ laboratory will have the capability to conduct the test on highly contagious COVID-19 virus.At least 88 suspected carriers are confined in different hospitals and 166 are still under home isolation.
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