Experts say significant backlogs and missing data on the location of some cases could undermine efforts to contain the spread of the virus.
QUARANTINE MEASURES. Workers sanitize and disinfect seats and handrails before letting commuters in the coaches at the MRT3 Taft Station in Pasay City on June 1, 2020. Photo by Ben Nabong/Rappler
“We exhort the Department of Health to urgently resolve issues regarding the accuracy and timeliness of its data on COVID-19 cases in the country,” said mathematics professor Guido David, political science professor Ranjit Singh Rye, and Maria Patricia Agbulos – fellows of the OCTA research group of experts – in a study“If not urgently resolved, these significant and continuing challenges regarding DOH COVID-19 data will undermine not just the government’s ability to monitor the spread of the...
“The data coming in from the ‘other’ areas are bothersome because they now comprise the bulk of cases in the Philippines, and the locality of these cases need to be identified. Seriously, if you don’t know where these cases are from, how can you even do contact tracing properly?” he said.Over the last few weeks, the DOH has been working to clear the backlog of results, leading to the classification of new reported cases as either “fresh” cases or “late” cases .
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