President Rodrigo Duterte might issue an executive order (EO) setting a price ceiling for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) swab tests in private hospitals and laboratories, Malacañang said on Tuesday.

“Well, ang Presidente ay nag-issue ng (the President has already issued an) executive order imposing price caps on medicines, so I don’t think it is impossible for him to issue this executive order,” Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said in a virtual press briefing when asked if Duterte will regulate the prices of reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests.

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