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by Matthew Walsh Agence France-Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — Hazmat-suited workers poke plastic swabs down millions of throats in China each day, leaving bins bursting with medical waste that has become the environmental and economic levy of a zero-Covid strategy. China is the last major economy wedded to stamping out infections no matter the cost. Near-daily testing is the most commonly used weapon in an anti-virus arsenal that includes snap lockdowns and forced quarantines when […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — One of Hong Kong’s top coronavirus experts on Thursday joined a growing chorus of criticism over plans to test the entire city, saying doing so during its worst-ever outbreak would have little impact. The Asian financial hub is registering tens of thousands of new cases each day, overwhelming hospitals and shattering the city’s zero-Covid strategy. China has ordered local officials to stamp out the current wave even as studies […]
(Eagle News) — There are over 600 active COVID-19 cases among rail line personnel so far. The 641 active cases were based on recent data released by the Department of Transportation, which had ordered the COVID-19 mass testing of all rail line personnel in a bid to ensure the safety of all commuters. The mass testing is still ongoing. The 641 active cases are broken down as follows: Light Rail Transit-1: 24 active cases LRT-2: […]
(Eagle News) — There are over 600 COVID-19 active cases so far among rail line personnel, recent Department of Transportation data showed. According to the DOTr, the breakdown of the 650 active cases is as follows: Light Rail Transit-1: 20 active cases LRT-2: 229 active cases Metro Rail Transit-3: 181 active cases Philippine National Railways: 220 active cases So far, 1002 LRT-1 rail line personnel, 1934 LRT-2 rail line personnel, 1410 MRT-3 rail line personnel, […]
(Eagle News) — Active COVID-19 cases among rail line personnel are over 700, recent data on the ongoing mass testing from the Department of Transportation showed. According to the DOTr, the breakdown of the 739 total active COVID-19 cases is as follows: Light Rail Transit-1: 79 active COVID-19 cases LRT-2: 242 active COVID-19 cases Metro Rail Transit-3: 204 active COVID-19 cases Philippine National Railways: 214 active COVID-19 cases So far, 5,331 rail line personnel have […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Beijing on Friday kicked off a drive to test two million people in 48 hours as the city rushed to snuff out a new local cluster of cases believed to be linked to a more contagious virus variant. Long queues snaked through the Chinese capital — which reported 19 coronavirus cases in the past week — as the mass testing campaign got under way in Dongcheng and Xicheng districts. The […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine National Police (PNP) reported a “consistently high” COVID-19 recovery rate among PNP personnel, crediting it to mass testing and early detection. In a statement, PNP Health Service (PNPHS) Director Herminio Tadeo Jr. said the PNP’s current recovery rate is 50.86 percent, with 176 recoveries out of 346 confirmed cases as of Wednesday, June 3. “We attribute this high recovery rate to our intensified mass testing among our police personnel including […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) announced that its testing center in its national headquarters is now operational, and that it has two testing machines that can each conduct 1,500 COVID-19 tests per day. In a statement, the PRC said that its molecular laboratory along EDSA has already started operations on Wednesday, April 15, and this is their way of taking a step forward in its campaign to help prevent the spread […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) advised the public not to be alarmed or worried with the expected spike in COVID-19 cases as it starts its expanded mass testing for COVID-19 on Tuesday, April 14. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that about 300 medical technologists, molecular biologists, lab technicians, and researchers from the University of the Philippines’ National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology will be strategical deployed to supplement the […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) said that the mass testing has already started in the country for COVID-19 which is prioritizing vulnerable populations with symptoms. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that so far around 19,000 individuals have already been tested for coronavirus and that more than 15,000 have tested negative for the disease. Positive test results have reached 3,739 so far. This includes repeat tests, Vergeire said, which is why […]
