– Mayor Benjamin Magalong has asked the city’s finance committee to immediately set aside P30 million for the purchase of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction testing kits.As of Monday, Magalong said the city’s inventory was only 18,000, which will easily be exhausted considering the number of close contacts of patients being discovered daily.
Those tested include medical front-liners, other front-line service providers, close contacts of those tested positive of the coronavirus disease , and at least 10 percent from the different sectors considered as highly susceptible to the disease or what is commonly known as the mass base random risk-based testing.
He said “testing is an important component of contact tracing but it is also important to share to the Cordillera provinces because we are part of the region.”
Who are priviledged to use the kit?i wonder