PH contact tracing capacity at 98 percent: DILG COVID19
MANILA - The Philippines' contact tracing capacity is at 98.2 percent as of last Friday, as some 69,000 contact tracers have been deployed in a bid to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of the Interior and Local Government said Sunday.
Local contact tracing teams have found 47,474 of 48,371 confirmed cases and their 161,975 close contacts, the DILG said. Mimaropa, Bicol region, Zamboanga peninsula, Caraga, and Bangsamoro have 100 percent contact tracing capability, the agency said.
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