Duterte: Step up RT-PCR testing

By Kristina Maralit

Jan 12, 2022 12:11 am

Updated at 12:11 am Jan. 12, 2022

AMID the surge in coronavirus infections, President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the Department of Health to ramp up the testing capacity of facilities conducting reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing.

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members at the Arcadia Active Lifestyle Center in Matina, Davao City on January 10, 2022. JOEY DALUMPINES/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO

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Updated at 12:11 am Jan. 12, 2022

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