Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Benhur Abalos said on Sunday that the government is set to hire 14,000 contact tracers to be deployed in the National Capital Region (NCR).

Contact tracers will be paid according to the NCR minimum wage rate. The project was estimated to cost P213 million.

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