The Labor Department says the cost of all COVID-19 prevention and testing efforts in the workplace must be shouldered by business owners, saying they should 'dig deeper into their vast reserve of charity' to help authorities in the battle against COVID-19
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Monday that the government still has no plans to carry out mass testing to detect COVID-19 infections in the country, adding that authorities will leave such efforts in the hands of private businesses.
"We cannot hide from the virus forever. We have guidelines on how to go back to work... For asymptomatics, government will not test," Project ARK medical team chief Dra. Minguita Padilla said. She added that the private sector has also procured additional reverse transmission-polymerase chain reaction or RT-PCR kits and machines to be installed in government-run hospitals to boost capacity.
"We know that businesses have suffered so much, but for the sake of our economy we encourage them to dig deeper into their vast reserve of charity and benevolence so that their workers and the communities can continue to further weather this crisis that we are all facing and fighting together," Secretary Silvestre Bello III said in a statement.
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