Valenzuela City will be able to determine its coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection trajectory after 10 days when all its targeted residents have already been tested, Mayor Rex Gatchalian said Wednesday.
Gatchalian said it is still “very early” for the city to say if they are already flattening the curve because, as of press time, there are only about 125 residents who have been tested under the city’s mass testing program.“Give us probably 10 days. At least by then, you would see already the actual number. So we can actually draw you the curve ng Valenzuela kung nasaan na kami,” he said in a press conference.
Once mass testing is done, Valenzuela will already completely know who among its residents are positive for COVID-19. Former Valenzuela Mayor and now Senator Win Gatchalian said that one of the “minimum conditions” to be met before lifting the lockdown is to see the flattening of the curve.
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