DOH: UP-NIH COVID-19 test kits to be distributed this week
The Department of Health (DOH) announced that locally-produced COVID-19 test kits developed by the University of the Philippines-National Institutes for Health (UP-NIH) will begin distribution this week.
The first hospitals to receive these 1,300 test kits include Philippine General Hospital, Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center, Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center, Southern Philippines Medical Center, Makati Medical Center, and The Medical City.
These kits can perform up to 26,000 COVID-19 tests in total.
Dr. Raul Destura, a microbiologist and infectious diseases expert, stated that UP-NIH will start using the test kits internally on Monday.
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