CEBU CITY, Philippines — A “massive targeted testing” or targeting mass testing will be Cebu province’s first step in rising from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Governor Gwendolyn Garcia, in a press conference this Tuesday, April 20, 2020, announced that the province was already in talks with medical experts from the University of the Philippines and a foreign rapid test kits supplier for the guidelines in the conduct of the massive targeted testing.
“Atong kuhaon ang demographic [data] sa kada lungsod, nagkadilain man. Lahi ang syudad, lahi ang lungsod. Lahi ang syudad duol sa Metro Cebu, lahi pod ang farther south or farther north ug sa mga isla. Mo-target ta og specific number of the population nga maoy conductan og rapid testing,” Garcia explained.
Giango said the kits were considered to render “accurate” results based on their results in South Korea. “Kung ato ning i-modify, possible nga dunay mga negosyo nga karon wala nato giconsider nga essential nga atong tugtan nga makaabli og balik o kaha, possibly ang 50 percent skeletal workforce, mahimo na nato nga gradually nga mapasaka aron there will be more productivity and duna na say trabaho,” Garcia said.At present, the province has three COVID-19 cases of which two have recovered while the other one succumbed to the disease.
Garcia said that the province would have to slowly revive its economic sector as the government might not be able to sustain for a longer time the needs of the people who ended up losing their sources of income due to COVID-19 and the ECQ.
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