The appointment of Bases and Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) chief Vince Dizon as COVID-19 testing czar has done nothing to improve the government’s ability to do mass testing.
The government continues to lag behind in mass testing, with the Department of Health (DOH) reporting that it has only been able to conduct 11,127 tests daily as of May 15.
Government officials earlier said that the target is to conduct 30,000 COVID-19 tests daily by the end of May.
Dizon’s failure as COVID-19 testing czar became more pronounced when Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque admitted the government lacks the resources for mass testing.
In a press briefing Monday (May 18), Roque blamed the failure to do mass testing on scarcity of laboratories and testing kits.
“In an ideal world, dapat po lahat ng tao ma-testing, pero alam ninyo, una, ang hirap na nga nitong PCR (polymerase chain reaction) testing, trenta pa lang ang laboratories natin, ang gusto nating mangyari hindi bababa sa nobenta iyang mga PCR testing centers natin,” he said.
“Pangalawa, nagkakaubusan din po sa rapid test kits. Sa katunayan, alam ko po as a fact na napakahirap na ngayon sa Tsina maglabas ng rapid test kits dahil sila mismo gusto nilang i-test ang lahat ng mga Tsino,” Roque added.
Malacañang said it is leaving the testing of employees in the private sector to businessmen.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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