Quezon City’s community-based testing for COVID-19 infection will start next week, the city’s health officials announced Thursday. | GabrielLaluINQ
“We need to flatten the curve by testing PUIs and putting them in one of our facilities while waiting for their results,” Arias said in a statement. “We want to avoid a situation where the patient might infect a relative whose immune system is compromised.”The initial 1,300 test kits were obtained from the Department of Health while an additional 1,500 test kits would be handed over by the Philippine Red Cross to the Quezon City government next week.
Dr. Rolando Cruz, the city health department’s Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit head, said people with COVID-19 symptoms would be tested. The specimens would then be sent to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine while the city’s partnership with other private institutions for testing capabilities remains pending.Once partnerships are finalized, local authorities said the waiting time for tests may be reduced to just one hour.
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