P3,000 incentive speeds up contact tracing in San Juan

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The San Juan City government’s P3,000 incentive program for coronavirus (COVID-19) patients checking into the city’s isolation facilities is a big factor in speeding up their contact tracing efforts.

“We released P3,000 financial assistance for positive patients who decide to transfer to any of our four facilities. This incentive is to make them transfer to quarantine facilities, so that we can extract them [from] the community, so that they cannot infect,” Mayor Francis Zamora said in an interview on ANC on Wednesday .Zamora said the move has sped up the local government’s contact tracing efforts as coronavirus cases continue to swell in the metropolis.

The mayor added that the P3,000 incentive eases the concern of family breadwinners who fear losing their jobs while isolated. The mayor said the city recorded a total of 383 active cases as of Aug. 11, and will start the conduct of mass testing on residents for coronavirus disease. “Our mega swabbing facility is in the Palacio de Maynila…With the start of mass testing, we will be averaging 500 to 700 testing a day,” Zamora said.

 

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