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PRC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Senator Richard Gordon, announced this in a Twitter post and congratulated the PRC Bio-Molecular Laboratory located in Port Area, Manila.
“This is indeed a significant milestone in the fight against COVID-19, that this lab is the single biggest mol[ecular] lab in the country,” Gordon said.
Inaugurated on June 23, 2020, Gordon said the full capacity of the that the PRC Lab in Port Area is 11,000 tests per day. With an average of 6,200 tests per day, he noted that the PRC Lab has the “biggest output of any single” Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) laboratory in the country.