RITM scales down operations after 40 staff test positive for COVID-19

Forty RITM staff members tested positive for COVID-19, leading to scaled-down operations starting April 16.

RITM will only process specimens from Muntinlupa, Parañaque, Las Piñas, and Pasay until April 24, affecting daily case counts.

Despite reduced capacity, RITM aims to clear backlogs by end-April with zoning system for specimen processing.

Most infected staff are asymptomatic or have minor symptoms; only two employees over 50 years old were hospitalized.

RITM's index patient was an encoder who contracted the virus from the community on April 4.