CEBU CITY—The national pandemic task force has committed to visit Cebu on June 28 to evaluate the province’s policy of testing overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and residents returning from abroad.
Health Undersecretary Alethea de Guzman said experts of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging and Infectious Disease (IATF-EID) are “deeply concerned” about the province’s quarantine protocols, and not about its testing and swabbing policies.
“Our secretary (wants) to see first hand the best practices (in Cebu),” said De Guzman during the committee on overseas workers affairs’ hearing at the House of Representatives on Thursday, June 17.
She said the IATF doe…
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