MANILA, Philippines — The government must significantly increase the number of COVID-19 tests while doing aggressive contact tracing to cut off possible transmissions amid the ongoing surge, Vice President Leni Robredo said on Monday.
According to Robredo, the country is doing just around 30,000 to 40,000 tests per day — the same number of tests back when the country was not yet seeing a high infection rate.
Contract tracing should be done within 24 hours to ensure that COVID-19 positive patients can no longer infect others, she added.
“With the number of cases so much higher now, it would be best to dramatically increase number of tests per day and do massive testing in are…
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