Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire admitted there are issues hounding the country’s contact tracing efforts, particularly in health human resources. Read:
“They have set this benchmark when you have one contact person per 800 persons in the country. So if we are going to look at that and considering what we have for now as to the number of contact tracers, we are short of about 94,000 if we are going to follow that benchmark,” she added.
Earlier, Dr. Socorro Escalante, World Health Organization acting representative, said the Department of Health’s contact tracing efforts to halt the further spread of the new coronavirus in the country is slow. However, Vergeire noted that the government is now trying to address the lack of contact tracers through emergency hiring.But the government’s economic team has
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