Still, testing will be limited to patients under investigation and persons under monitoring. COVID19PH
SCREEN PATIENTS. To protect themselves from COVID-19, nurses from the UP Health Service in Diliman, Quezon City, put sheets of plastic as a divider between them and patients. Photo by KD Madrilejos/Rappler
Nograles cited experts who said that if the Philippines can manage coronavirus cases in the country, some 8,000 to 10,000 tests need to be carried out daily.Nograles laid out the government’s proposed timeline to hit this target and later, the government’s goal to reach some 20,000 tests per day. The timeline is as follows:
Establish big testing centers in “strategic areas” nationwide: Nograles said testing sites all over the Philippines will be put up to add to the existing capacity of laboratoriesPag nagawa po natin yan, at lahat yan sabay-sabay, by April 27, aabot na po tayo to 13,000 to 20,000 tests per dayAlong with ramping up the country’s testing capacity, the government’s coronavirus task force wanted to cut the turnaround time for tests – or the time it takes to give back results to a patient – to just 24...
Patients with mild symptoms but are immuno-compromised and have a history of travel or exposure to known coronavirus cases
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