MANILA, Philippines — Speaker Lord Allan Velasco has urged the government to come up with a unified contact tracing protocol to ensure a more effective health emergency data monitoring system in the country.
In filing House Resolution No. 1536, Velasco said the government needs to strengthen its contact tracing efforts by using the most effective and safest system to boost its response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
He noted that the Philippines has only been able to identify at least seven contacts for every confirmed Covid-19 case when the ideal contact tracing ratio should be 1:37 for urban areas and 1:30 for rural communities.
The proposed unified national contact tracing proto…
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