MANILA, Philippines — The contact tracing ratio for Covid-19 patients and their close contacts in Metro Manila is still at 1:6, the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday.
“For every one person, they can trace contacts of up to six persons,” Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in an interview on ABS-CBN News Channel.
Vergeire said the original target ratio for the region was somewhere between 1:27 to 1:36.
“But that is very ideal and that is [what] the testing contact tracing czar has mentioned. In their area, they were able to do that because of strong enforcement,” she added.
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