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(Eagle News) — The 35-year-old man who was found to have the United Kingdom variant of the COVID-19 virus has already tested negative for COVID-19. Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte said in a television interview that the results were based on a re-swabbing done on the man, a former Overseas Filipino Worker in South Korea, in the city’s Hope facility. In a virtual briefing on Thursday, Belmonte said the local government was also planning to file […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government will rehire some 15,000 contact tracers to sustain the country’s contact tracing efforts. In a statement on Saturday, January 16, the DILG said the rehires will work for at least six months. “While the country’s COVID-19 response is significantly improving, we should sustain our contact tracing efforts especially with the reported entry of the new UK coronavirus variant into the country,” the statement said. […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of the Interior and Local Government is nearing its target of hiring 50,000 contact tracers to help in the country’s fight against COVID-19. In a statement, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said 46,338 are now “embedded” in localities, while the remaining will be hired this week. According to Año, the National Capital Region, as the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, got the most number of contact tracers with 7,362. Metro […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government is hiring 2000 contact tracers for Quezon City. In a statement, DILG-QC Director Emmanuel D. Borromeo said applicants must have a bachelor’s degree, preferably an allied medical course or criminology, and “must be skilled in data gathering and/pr assisted in research and documentation.” He said contact tracers should have investigative capability as among the duties of contact tracers include interviewing COVID-19 cases and close contacts […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government has launched its official contact tracing program, StaySafe.ph application, which is considered a game changer to the country’s COVID-19 response, Malacanang said. Presidential Spokesperson Secretary Harry Roque, Jr. said this official contact tracing app was launched on Sept. 2 at SM Manila. He said that the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) as early as June 2020 had reaffirmed its policy on the use […]
(Eagle News)–Over 10,000 additional contact tracers will be hired for Metro Manila, Interior Spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said on Thursday, Aug. 27. In a radio interview, Malaya said this was given a 13-million population for the National Capital Region, so far the epicenter of COVID-19 in the country. He said the World Health Organization’s ratio for contact tracer to population is 1:800. So far, he said Metro Manila has 4,000 contact tracers. “Ang hinahanap namin, first […]
(Eagle News)–Over 69,000 contact tracers have been deployed nationwide as part of the government’s efforts against COVID-19. According to Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, the 69,098 contact tracers are in charge of tracking down and managing the close contacts of COVID-19 cases and offer diagnostic, counseling and treatment to confirmed cases. Año said the contact tracers have been assigned to 5,215 contact tracing teams. “Our local contact tracing teams nationwide are working double-time to interrupt the […]
(Eagle News)–The police will continue to assist health authorities in contact tracing efforts, Philippine National Police chief Archie Gamboa said, as he welcomed the “contact tracing ecosystem” put forward by the country’s newly-appointed contact tracing czar. Gamboa issued the statement after Interior Secretary Eduardo Año tapped the Bureau of Fire Protection to help in the government’s Oplan Kalinga program that aims to identify COVID-19 cases who are asymptomatic or with mild symptoms in houses even […]
(Eagle News) — All public utility vehicles will be required to have a manifesto on hand for when they start to operate in general community quarantine areas. According to LTFRB chairman Martin Delgra III, the manifesto is to record all passengers’ details necessary in case contact tracing is needed. “Kailangang may manifesto ng pasahero kasama ‘yung mga pangalan, contact number on the part of the bus operator… Hindi lang sa bus ‘yan, kundi sa lahat […]
(Eagle News) – Local government units were directed by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to focus and intensify contact tracing efforts, in view of the LGU-led strategy adopted by the government to combat COVID-19. In a statement, DILG Secretary Eduardo M. Año said that the main focus of the local-level contact tracing is to detect, isolate, treat, and reintegrate COVID-19 positive patients, “in accordance with the National Strategy to Defeat Covid-19 of […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of the Interior and Local Government will now take the lead in the government’s contact tracing efforts as the country continues in its fight against the coronavirus disease 2019. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles made the announcement in a press briefing on Saturday, April 18. According to Nograles, the decision was made by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases in a meeting on Friday. “Ang DILG ay inatasan […]
(Eagle News) – The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) is now the lead agency tasked to conduct contact tracing of individuals who might be infected with COVID-19, according to the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases. Under the latest IATF resolution no. 22, the OCD and the Department of Health will enter into a “data sharing agreement” in accordance with the Data Privacy Act or Republic Act No. 10173, but it is the […]
