In the proposed amendment, Hontiveros said the medical testing and observation of persons under investigation and persons under monitoring could be expedited through “upgrading diagnostic capacity and mass testing prioritizing high-risk individuals…”
“Social distancing and the lockdown are not enough to ‘defeat the outbreak,’” Hontiveros said, “We need to follow the World Health Organization’s advice for countries to ‘test, test, test.” But mass testing, she said, “is even more crucial when symptoms are mild, as those with undetectable symptoms remain as carriers of the coronavirus.”Aside from mass testing, Hontiveros also called for increased protections for medical personnel and frontliners “including but not limited to personal protective equipment and adequate hazard pay.”
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