DOH urges LGUs to conduct active COVID case finding after low testing output

According to Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, LGUs should actively find suspected cases of the disease in order to increase the number of tests and better determine if the Omicron variant is already present in the country.

“Actually napag-obserbahan na po natin ito, that for these past weeks, medyo bumababa po ang output ng ating laboratories. But it is not really just the operationalization of the laboratories. Ang mga laboratoryo naman natin ay hindi nagiging operational usually on Sundays dahil nagmemetainance po sila,” she said at the Laging Handa public briefing.

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