FILE PHOTO: A health worker conducts a coronavirus disease swab testing at a gymnasium in Navotas City, Metro Manila, Philippines, August 7, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health on Saturday said it was finalizing the joint administrative order on the price cap on COVID-19 testing and test kits. “We are already finalizing,” DOH Undersecretary and spokeswoman Maria Rosario Vergeire said during the Laging Handa online press briefing when asked for an update on the joint administrative order.Vergeire added that the DOH has consulted with various stakeholders on the price cap on COVID-19 tests and kits.
“Inipon po natin yung mga komento nila tapos inanalyze po natin ulit, nag-final draft na po tayo at pipirmahan na lang po nila [Department of Trade and Industry] Secretary Mon Lopez at [DOH Secretary Francisco Duque III] yung ating joint admin order para mailabas po natin maybe early part of the week next week,” the DOH spokeswoman said.
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