Enough good contact tracers to do job, assures DILG

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The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) brushed off on Tuesday persistent claims by critics that COVID-19 cases will worsen in the country with only 15,000 contact tracers being hired in the next six months in 2021 as opposed to the 50,000 last year.

In an exclusive interview, DILG Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya insisted no truth to the claim of “lack of contact tracers’’ stressing that “we have excess already.’’

He added that the contact tracers must also be supervised by the city and municipal health officers who will head the contact tracing operations at the local level. “We already have 29,611 contact tracing teams which is composed of 255,854 contact tracers nationwide. Even without the DILG hiring, we already have sufficient number of contact tracers,” Malaya said.

 

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