MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) admitted on Wednesday that there was a need to expand testing for the coronavirus, including doing it house-to-house with help from local governments.
Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the DOH was using every means to capture the true state of COVID-19 infections in the country and that the local governments were already doing the neighborhood tests of close contacts, both asymptomatic and symptomatic cases.
“We are ramping up although experts are saying we need to test more, and that is what we are trying to do,” Vergeire said.
The country has been reporting a higher positivity rate in the past weeks. On Wed…
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