MANILA, Philippines — Amid the surge of COVID-19 cases in the country a year into the pandemic, some lawmakers flagged a possible underreporting of confirmed cases since the reported infections are limited on the basis of results from reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests.
During the House health committee hearing on Tuesday, officials were asked regarding the non-reporting of antigen tests that yield positive results.
“That’s my worry, it would seem like there’s a growing number of COVID positives who were tested not on the basis of RT-PCR but rather antigen. In which case, hindi po sila nasasama sa reporting ng confirmed cases,” Marikina City …
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