Developers of Pinoy-made COVID-19 test kit working 'double time' for mass rollout: regulator

Watch also in iWant or TFC.tv Local scientists are working "double time" for the mass rollout of Philippine-made test kits for the novel coronavirus, a shortage of which has stumped global efforts to contain the pandemic, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.

Field tests are needed to prove the efficacy of the kits by the University of the Philippines-National Institutes of Health. Without this, results would have to be validated by a genetic test and separate kits at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine in Muntinlupa, said FDA Director General Eric Domingo.

"Ang sabi po nila sa akin noong weekend e nagdo-double time po sila sa mga field testing. Sabi namin, basta meron naman silang data ipadala na po sa FDA," he told DZMM. "Hinihintay lang po natin kasi kailangan natin iyong kanilang validation para mapayagan na po natin ang malawakan na paggamit," he added. There is a "global shortage" of test kits and protective gear for medical workers, the health department earlier said.

While waiting, I strongly believe that we have to focus also on management of patients with COVID-19 in order for them to recover faster. Thus, machines e.g ventilators, PAPR, CRRT and ECMO machines must be acquired. Also engineering on neg pressure rooms must be deployed.

oh asan na yung mga mass testing pabebe ano na

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