Published February 18, 2021, 6:00 AM
The Ayala Group of Companies, through the Ayala Foundation, has donated testing kits and other medical supplies to Quezon City to boost the testing capacity of the country’s biggest city.
In a statement, the conglomerate said QC Mayor Joy Belmonte received P4.5 million worth of supplies that would further expand the city’s mass testing efforts.
Partners in this effort are Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship Foundation, Inc., who led the Pooled PCR Testing Program with QC LGU; and Assurance Controls Technologies Co., Inc., who assured the efficient supply of needed test materials and consumables to the accredited laboratories for the Pooled PCR testing.
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Photo by Associated Press February 11, 2021 THE Davao City Health Office (CHO) has not received any report of infection from a new variant of Covid-19 in the city based on its recent updates from the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), acting CHO Head Dr. Ashley Lopez said in a radio interview on Wednesday, February 10, 2021.
Lopez said samples tested from Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) and Davao One World Diagnostic Center were sent to Philippine Genome Center (PGC) in Manila for genome sequencing. However, results have not yet been sent back to them because of technical problems with the machine being used to process the specimen for the confirmatory tests.
Participants in Muntinlupa’s COVID-19 Vaccine Virtual Town Hall Meeting (Muntinlupa PIO / MANILA BULLETIN)
It launched a series of COVID-19 Vaccine Virtual Town Hall Meeting with health professionals from national government agencies.
At least 100 participants from homeowners associations and urban poor groups attended the first meeting done in partnership with the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In the latest results of the city government’s survey on COVID-19 vaccine, 2,567 out of 4,074 respondents, or 63 percent, said they were willing to be vaccinated while 788, or 19.34 percent, said “no” and 719, or 17.65 percent, did not answer and were classified as “unaccounted.”
National Task Force (NTF) Chief Deputy Chief Implementer Vince Dizon on Thursday, Feb. 11, said there will be a slight delay on the arrival of the first 117,000 Pfizer vaccines in the country.
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