{"id":255245,"date":"2020-05-18T07:54:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=255245"},"modified":"2020-05-18T07:54:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:54:12","slug":"pasig-eyes-rapid-testing-for-returning-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/18\/pasig-eyes-rapid-testing-for-returning-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasig eyes rapid testing for returning workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249867\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/84484281_2842764162448910_6182464891262074880_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249867\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/84484281_2842764162448910_6182464891262074880_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/84484281_2842764162448910_6182464891262074880_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/84484281_2842764162448910_6182464891262074880_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/84484281_2842764162448910_6182464891262074880_n-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;We want to require rapid testing then confirmatory PCR (polymerase chain reaction) here in Pasig,&#8221; said Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto in a tweet on Monday. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VicoSotto\/photos\/a.1280942245297784\/2842764159115577\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VicoSotto\/\">Vico Sotto\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The Pasig City government is eyeing to require returning workers to undergo rapid testing for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) as Metro Manila transitioned to modified enhanced community quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to require rapid testing then confirmatory PCR (polymerase chain reaction) here in Pasig,&#8221; said Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto in a tweet on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Sotto made this statement in response to Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire who said that employees are not required to undergo Covid-19 test prior to returning to work.<\/p>\n<p>The local government unit, he said, can facilitate the PCR tests. However, the availability of the rapid test kits could become a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe LGU can take care of the confirmatory PCR testing but the problem is where will small companies get rapid test kits?,&#8221; Sotto said, adding that even the Pasig LGU is having a hard time in finding available test kits.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Vergeire earlier said those returning employees who have coronavirus-like symptoms are recommended to undergo Covid-19 tests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our protocol is to guide employers, we have emphasized that symptomatic screening is ideal, and test only when symptomatic. IATF resolution stated that in no case shall testing be a condition for return to work, so we expect that specific agencies shall implement and enforce the IATF resolutions,&#8221; she said in a Viber message to reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 The Pasig City government is eyeing to require returning workers to undergo rapid testing for the coronavirus disease 2019 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":249867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-lade-jean-kabagani","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255245","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255246,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255245\/revisions\/255246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}