{"id":263553,"date":"2020-07-30T21:18:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T01:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=263553"},"modified":"2020-07-30T21:18:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T01:18:52","slug":"ph-seen-to-surpass-sokors-covid-19-tests-by-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/30\/ph-seen-to-surpass-sokors-covid-19-tests-by-august\/","title":{"rendered":"PH seen to surpass SoKor\u2019s Covid-19 tests by August"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_262761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262761\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-19-5057462_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-262761 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-19-5057462_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-19-5057462_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-19-5057462_1280-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-19-5057462_1280-768x278.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/covid-19-5057462_1280-1024x370.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-262761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The country is next to South Korea with total tests of 1.5 million. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2013 The country\u2019s Covid-19 testing czar Vivencio Dizon said the Philippines will surpass the tests for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) of South Korea by next month, as the government continues to boost its testing capacity.<\/p>\n<p>In a briefing Thursday, Dizon said he is confident the government can conduct 2 million tests in August.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Philippines now has the second-highest number of tests conducted in Asia with nearly 1.4 million tests made as of July 26.<\/p>\n<p>The country is next to South Korea with total tests of 1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the coming weeks, we will surpass South Korea in conducting (Covid-19) testing,\u201d Dizon, National Task Force (NTF) on Covid-19 deputy chief implementer, said in Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>Other Asian countries that conducted the most number of Covid-19 tests include Malaysia with over 932,000 tests, Japan with over 780,000 tests, and Indonesia with over 700,000 tests.<\/p>\n<p>Dizon said the stronger testing capacity in the country is made possible as accredited testing laboratories nationwide reached 94 from only one testing center in March.<\/p>\n<p>He added the government will further expand testing capacity which will also include front-liners who are doing non-medical jobs like police, drivers, salespersons, and cashiers, among others; workers in declared priority tourism zones; and workers in economic zones.<\/p>\n<p>Dizon said local government units (LGUs) now have the authority to test their constituents in areas declared as hotspots for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>He said this testing will be conducted for free through PhilHealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The country\u2019s Covid-19 testing czar Vivencio Dizon said the Philippines will surpass the tests for the coronavirus disease &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":262761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-kris-crismundo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263553","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=263553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263554,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263553\/revisions\/263554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}