Duque urges Bulacan to boost testing, tracing
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III called on Bulacan to increase its testing capacity and contact tracing efforts due to a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Duque said that 20,000 individuals need to be traced based on the province's 2,018 confirmed cases, with 788 recoveries and 58 deaths.
He urged local officials to use public elementary school buildings as quarantine facilities to address the shortage of isolation rooms.
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