MANILA, Philippines — The government should intensify its COVID-19 testing in the country, with as much as 90,000 daily tests in Metro Manila alone, Vice President Leni Robredo suggested on Sunday.
In a Facebook post, Robredo shared the March 26 COVID-19 data from the Department of Health showing the country’s positivity rate at 17.29 percent or 6,936 out of the 40,106 individuals tested. Positivity rate is the number who test positive as a percentage of tests taken per day.
“Right now, we’re conducting between 30,000-50,000 tests per day all over the country. But if you look at this table, the positivity rates for some regions are so high that the number of tests we ar…
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