5.5K more contact tracers hired to improve Covid-19 response
(File photo) MANILA - An additional 5,514 contact tracers have been hired to boost the government's efforts to track close contacts of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) patients, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Monday night. "Nakapagdagdag tayo ng 5,514 contact tracers mula October 3 to 7. Ang kabuuan na po ngayon ng ating contact tracers ay 136,937 (We have hired an additional 5,514 contact tracers from October 3 to 7. We now have 136,937 contact tracers)," Lorenzana told President Rodrigo Duterte during his Talk to the People. Lorenzana, also chairperson of the Nation...
Source: philippinetimes.com