Locally-made Covid-19 test kit okay for commercial use: DOH

disease and then they’ll compare Bandoy also warned the public it with Covid-19 deaths. They don’t against wrong computation of Covid-19 notice that it is one year worth of data, recovery rate circulating in the social and Covid-19 hasn’t been around for media. a year, Covid-19 data are fairly new, so there are improper comparisons “May nag-call ng attention ko na influence people to ignore the severity may nagshe-share ng recovery rate. of Covid-19), Bandoy added. So, unang-una po pabayaan natin sa Citing the impact of the disease mga epidemiologist na nakakaintindi on the American healthcare system, (Someone called my attention about Bandoy reiterated that Covid-19 is a deadly disease. this recovery rate being shared. Firstly, leave this to those who had proper “Makikita po natin iyan sa America na napupuno po ang mga ospital, America na po ‘yun, mas lalo po kung medyo limitado ang ating healthcare capacity dito sa Pilipinas training, the epidemiologists),” he said. He added that sharing the computation of Covid-19 recovery rate by persons who do not have proper training would lead to confusion. (Hospitals in America are full because of Covid-19, what more if we have limited healthcare capacity here in the Philippines),” he said. To date, there are 68,898 confirmed Covid-19 cases, with 23,072 recoveries and 1,835 deaths nationwide. (PNA) Locally-made Covid-19 test kit okay for commercial use: DOH

By Ma. Teresa Montemayor

The Department of Health (DOH) on Sunday said GenAmplify version 2, a locally-made reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test kit is now ready for commercial use.

“After several months of Tek team for their “commitment to collaboration, we are proud to say, excellence and safety, as they worked GenAmplify version 2, the country’s closely with our independent laboratory very own PT-PCR test kit, is finally ready expert panel in addressing key issues of for commercial use,” the DOH said in a version 1 of GenAmplify.” statement. mga may valid na training dito, ‘yung Earlier, Department of Science DOH lauded the Manila Health and Technology (DOST) Secretary