House panels urge IATF to establish unified nat’l contact tracing protocol

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MANILA, Philippines — Two committees in the House of Representatives adopted on Tuesday a resolution urging the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to establish a unified national contact tracing protocol “for a more effective health emergency data monitoring system.”

House Resolution No. 1536 filed by Speaker Lord Allan Velasco was adopted during the joint online meeting of the House committee on health and the committee on information and communications technology.

The resolution points out the need for the modification of existing contact tracing systems and the development of new user-friendly data interfaces “to manage mu…

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