{"id":249447,"date":"2020-03-21T20:54:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T00:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=249447"},"modified":"2020-03-21T20:54:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T00:54:17","slug":"ph-tests-1k-covid-19-puis-daily-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/21\/ph-tests-1k-covid-19-puis-daily-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"PH tests 1K Covid-19 PUIs daily: DOH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249166\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/people-wearing-face-mask-standing-side-by-side-3952206.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249166\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/people-wearing-face-mask-standing-side-by-side-3952206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/people-wearing-face-mask-standing-side-by-side-3952206.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/people-wearing-face-mask-standing-side-by-side-3952206-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/people-wearing-face-mask-standing-side-by-side-3952206-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/people-wearing-face-mask-standing-side-by-side-3952206-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) alone, she said the average test is around 600 a day. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine government is testing an average of 950 to 1,000 persons under investigation (PUIs) for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) a day, a health official said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Kapag ini-<\/em>total\u00a0<em>po natin lahat ng nagagawa natin<\/em>\u00a0for one day,\u00a0<em>ang<\/em>\u00a0average\u00a0<em>po ay<\/em>\u00a0950 to 1,000 tests per day (If we total the number, we get to test an average of 950 to 1,000 per day),&#8221; Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire told in a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>At the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) alone, she said the average test is around 600 a day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since we established the sub-national laboratories, three of them are now capable of testing 100 while the other is 50 a day,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Given the recent donations, Vergeire said the number of Covid-19 test kits may now be considered &#8220;sufficient at present time&#8221; but she reiterated that not all PUIs need to be tested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Ang tine<\/em>-test\u00a0<em>po natin ngayon ay &#8216;yong mga taong may<\/em>\u00a0severe\u00a0<em>na sintomas, &#8216;yong mga taong kasama sa<\/em>\u00a0vulnerable population\u00a0<em>natin<\/em>\u00a0(We are testing now those who have severe symptoms, those who are included in the vulnerable population),&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday morning, China donated a total of 100,000 sets of Novel Coronavirus Nucleic Acid Diagnostic Kit (PCR-Fluorescence Probing), which will be distributed from the RITM to sub-national laboratories in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The University of the Philippines-National Institutes of Health (UP-NIH) and the Department of Science and Technology recently developed a local Covid-19 test kit, which is now used for field testing.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Vergeire said the UP-NIH test kits are being validated that would run for at least two to three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>After the field trial, she said these kits would be evaluated and be given a certificate of product registration from the Food and Drug Administration for commercial use in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine government is testing an average of 950 to 1,000 persons under investigation (PUIs) for coronavirus disease 2019 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":249166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249448,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249447\/revisions\/249448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}