Covid-19 Mass Testing
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque has insisted that the Philippine government cannot conduct “mass testing” the way countries like China have done, and said it would leave it up to private businesses to foot the bill should they want to check if their workers are asymptomatic carriers of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The government will target only one to two percent of the population for COVID-19 testing, or 10 percent in the case of the epicenters of the outbreak such as Metro Manila, Roque said. He pointed out that this is a global benchmark.
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Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) tests are conducted in commercial, private and academic labs, as well as state and county health labs. UC Davis Health has greatly expanded our on-site testing capabilities, having developed and validated our own accurate COVID-19 test. We are doing this in full collaboration with Sacramento County Public Health and other public health agencies in order to take the pressure off other testing labs. Since we began testing in March, we have performed more than 10,000 molecular tests.
Testing for COVID-19 involves inserting a 6-inch long swab (like a long Q-tip) into the cavity between the nose and mouth (nasopharyngeal swab) for 15 seconds and rotating it several times. The swabbing is then repeated on the other side of the nose to make sure enough material is collected. The swab is then inserted into a container and sent to a lab for testing.
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