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File photo February 25, 2021 A HIGH-RANKING official of the Francisco Bangoy International Airport (Davao International Airport) Monitoring Team announced that it will be accepting Covid-19 test results from saliva tests of passengers coming to Davao City, but it must be coming from the Philippine Red Cross (PRC).
Airport Monitoring Team Head Generose Tecson told SunStar Davao on Thursday morning, February 25, that PRC is currently the only testing facility that has been accredited to conduct saliva tests to detect Covid-19 patients. That s why we don t accept any other saliva test, except from PRC, because it s not as simple as spitting, Tecson said in a phone interview.
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Dubai: The Philippines is today facing an unprecedented public health challenge. It has Southeast Asia s second-biggest COVID-19 outbreak at more than 563,000 infections and over 12,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins February 23, 2021 data. The country aims to start immunisations this month. Initially, the country is set to receive 117,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and 5.5 million to 9.3 million doses of the AstraZeneca brand by March.
“The COVID-19 vaccination programme will be the largest and most complex public health effort in the history of the Philippines. It will especially benefit the poor and most vulnerable among us,” said Dr. Nicanor Pier Austriaco, OP, a molecular biologist and a government vaccine consultant, whose lab is also developing a yeast-based vaccine in the US.
Only PRC labs allowed to perform saliva testing: DOH
Published 2 months ago
Following the recommendation from the Covid-19 Laboratory Experts Panel, the DOH approved the use of saliva as an alternate specimen in reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction testing on Jan. 21. (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan)
MANIILA – Philippine Red Cross (PRC) laboratories are the only facilities the Department of Health (DOH) allowed to perform saliva testing since the procedure still involves validation.
In a Viber message to reporters, the DOH said local government units, offices, and epidemiological surveillance units recognize only the PRC labs for saliva testing, which indicates that home or do-it-yourself saliva test kits in the market are not approved.
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Drones to characterize aquatic habitats of malaria vectors in the Amazon, Malaysian Borneo and Burkina Faso Malaria control programmes rely on interventions targeting mosquito-breeding sites to reduce mosquito populations and malaria transmission. A precise knowledge of ecological characteristics of mosquito aquatic habitats is key for such interventions.
This webinar will have three presentations discussing how drones can help in the characterisation of aquatic habitats of malaria vectors in the Amazon, Malaysian Borneo and Burkina Faso. Presentations will be followed by an interactive discussion with the panellists and audience, addressing the use of drones to understand the ecological features of mosquito breeding sites.