Department of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said that the criteria for testing might change again with the arrival of more test kits. COVID19PH
“For those VIPs, so to speak, who had requested that they be tested, they actually fit in the initial set of criteria that would allow them for testing,” Duque said., mostly asymptomatic, have allegedly demanded the RITM to prioritize their tests, including their family members, for COVID-19.
Duque explained that when the DOH came up with a new criteria, this limited testing to those who have symptoms and are belonging to the vulnerable group or senior citizens and those with preexisting medical conditions.“There will have to be a recalibration of those testing criteria because now we have more. We have 100,000 testing kits from China that have already been evaluated with the standards of RITM,” Duque said.have been received by the Philippine government from China over the weekend.
The country is still expecting more testing kits from Singapore and South Korea. This is on top of the
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