MANILA, Philippines — Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte has asked the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to deploy additional contact tracers in the city so that it would be able to achieve the ideal ratio of one COVID-19 case to 37 contacts.
Belmonte said the local government was previously able to achieve the ideal contact tracing ratio, especially when DILG deployed over 1,500 contact tracers in the city.
However, when 1,000 of the DILG’s contact tracers ended their contracts, only 500 were left with the city, which was augmented by 500 of the city’s own contact tracers.
At present, the city has about 1,065 contact tracers; with this, they were only able to…
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