DOH ‘hopeful’ to reach 8,000 testing capacity soon, cites encoding delays COVID19
MANILA — The Philippine government is hopeful it would soon reach its target 8,000 COVID-19 tests daily as current figures still fall short amid calls for mass testing for the disease.
“In actual, ang highest natin per day na nagawa is 4,907. Kahapon is 3,900 plus because there were 2 labs which were not able to provide reports,” she added. She said some laboratories might only have 2 encoders despite the fact that they run thousands of tests a day.
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