BUKIDNON, Philippines – The Department of Health , the University of the Philippines in Mindanao, and the Southern Philippines Medical Center are set on opening a genome-sequencing laboratory in Davao City this February to speed up work on the detection of COVID-19 variants in Mindanao.
UP-Diliman is host to the Philippine Genome Center that has been overwhelmed by specimens taken from COVID-19 patients and sent to it for analyses from all over the country. She said the new laboratory would reduce the time of analyzing and releasing test results that usually take three to four weeks, long after those who tested positive for COVID-19 were already certified recovered.
The dry run would have been done in January but the delivery of more equipment was delayed because of the Typhoon Odette devastation in some areas of Mindanao and the Visayas.
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