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The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) launched eTravel, a contact tracing platform and health declaration checklist for inbound travelers.

Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda thinks that “carelessness” on the part of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) may have facilitated the annoying and worrisome spam text blasts of today.

Vice President Leni Robredo on Saturday, March 19, emphasized the need for the country to learn from the lessons of the past to prepare for a possible Covid-19 surge in the future.

The Department of Health (DOH) has defended the policy shift on contact tracing, saying that the strategy is now “impractical” and that efforts should be more focused on “high-impact” activities such as vaccination.

Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano ordered the house-to-house symptom checking in the city’s 201 barangays amid the rising number of COVID-19 cases.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will no longer hire contact-tracers this year, citing a cut in the budget of the department as the reason.

The country’s weakest links amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic are testing and tracing, said a public health expert on Tuesday, Jan. 11.

The country may be “winning” its battle versus COVID-19 with round-the-clock nationwide vaccinations and with hospitals registering zero new COVID admissions in the past few days. The reality, however, is that the pandemic is not yet over. There is still a need to enforce strict health protocols and to make sure more jabs land on the arms of citizens.

Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Tuesday expressed alarm over the reported surge of text messages containing spam, including sketchy job offers that promised high salaries, saying it not only raises data privacy concerns but has put the country’s contact tracing efforts against COVID-19 in a bad light.

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The Quezon City government on Wednesday, Oct. 27, announced that its contact tracing capacity continues to improve.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) called on Saturday, Sept. 18 all local government units (LGUs) to employ at least one contact tracer per barangay “with population not exceeding 5,000’’ in a bid to enhance the case findings and contact tracing efforts with the pilot enforcement of the Alert Level System in Metro Manila.

The Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines, Inc. (PHAPi) urged the national government to improve its contact tracing efforts to break the chain of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) transmission.

Former Health Secretary and Iloilo Rep. Janette Garin on Wednesday, Sept. 15 reminded the government on the need to conduct aggressive testing and contact tracing as it starts to implement granular lockdowns under a new alert level system as part of its anti-COVID-19 measures.

An official from the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) called on the national government to implement a more targeted contact tracing during the implementation of granular lockdowns in Metro Manila.

Senator Nancy Binay on Sunday, Sept. 12 renewed her appeal for the state economic managers to boost the government’s COVID-19 response by allocating a bigger budget for contact tracing in the proposed P5.024-trillion national budget for 2022.

The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) said the agency needs an additional budget to fund its contact tracers.

The local government of Caloocan City has started the contact tracing of persons who were present during the hostage taking incident in C-3 Road in Caloocan City on Friday night.