The
opposition senator even in detention wants to know the “real status” of the
coronavirus mass testing efforts of the government, she wants to know the level
of testing in the country has "hampered our ability to control the spread
of the virus."
Detained
senator Leila De Lima has filed Senate Resolution No.45 which would like to seeks
to "identify the reasons as to why" the Philippines is "still
way behind on testing."
"The lack of effective mass testing has
effectively hampered our ability to control the spread of the virus by denying
us leads for contact tracing, which in turn prevents us from isolating and
containing the infected individuals," Senator De Lima said in a statement.
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| Detained opposition senator Leila De Lima (photo credit to owner) |
"It appears that we are not only having
difficulty scaling up the testing facilities, we are also having difficulty in
providing the corresponding administrative infrastructure to support the
testing program," she said.
As per record the country’s daily testing capacity
as of May 25 has reached about 32,000, but the Department of Health (DOH)
earlier said that it could process only up to 8,000 kits a day.
Data provided by government shows that Philippine
Red Cross (PRC), a private organization,
Around
21 percent of tests are in private laboratories, coronavirus testing czar Vince
Dizon told lawmakers in a Senate hearing.
The remaining 16 percent are conducted by state-run
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), and 18 percent in other
government facilities.
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