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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.

UniTeam senatorial candidate Harry Roque will push to improve the country’s deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing facilities if victorious this coming May.

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 Marikina City government announced on Wednesday, Jan. 5, that it will now require the wearing of face shields for those who are going to the city’s vaccination centers.

Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles expects that there would still be a clamor from the public to have election candidates tested for illegal drug use.

The Department of Health (DOH) has observed a decline in the number of coronavirus swab tests conducted in majority of the regions in the country recently.

The report on the probe over the alleged “false positive” results of coronavirus tests conducted by the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) in Subic is expected to come out next week, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said.

The Department of Health (DOH) is not recommending the regular conduct of coronavirus testing among teachers, students and school personnel who will be taking part in the pilot implementation of the limited face-to-face classes.

The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) said Sunday, Sept. 19 that its molecular laboratories across the country conducted a total of 17,361 coronavirus tests last Sept. 17.

Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque believed there must be other reasons why the Executive Branch decided to cut the budget of the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), the country’s main coronavirus (COVID-19) testing center, for 2022.

The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) on Saturday, Sept. 4, has reduced the prices of its reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests for both swab and saliva testing.

Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday, August 25, pushed for “free mass testing” for COVID-19 using the billions of funds still not unutilized by agencies.

The list of “green” or low coronavirus risk countries that allows their vaccinated travelers to face shorter quarantine upon arrival in the Philippines has been further trimmed down as a precaution against the coronavirus spread.

The Philippine government is committed to continue to protect the people from the coronavirus disease from carrying out testing, quarantine measures to vaccination efforts.

The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) has urged the government increase the number of daily coronavirus tests and vaccination to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

A health reform advocate has urged to government to boost coronavirus testing, contact tracing, and vaccination in Metro Manila as the region will go into another round of lockdown due to the threat of the Delta variant.

Malacañang lamented the deployment of police officers for President Duterte’s sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26, saying the incident will be investigated.

The government is moving to bolster its “proactive” measures to prevent the spread of the highly contagious Delta coronavirus variant in the country.