News Roundup 03 April 2020
Apr 03, 2020 • 1 min Read
Pangilinan family to pay bail of 21 QC residents nabbed over protest for food | INQUIRER.NET – The family of Senator Francis Pangilinan – as initiated by his daughter Frankie – has offered to pay the bail of the 21 Quezon City residents, who were arrested Wednesday after protesting for food and other assistance amid the Luzon-wide quarantine due to COVID-19.
PGH calls for blood donation from COVID-19 survivors to help severely ill patients | PHILSTAR.COM – The Philippine General Hospital is calling on “COVID-19 survivors” to donate blood as they study antibodies they carry, which may help improve the condition of those severely ill from the novel coronavirus disease.
DOH confident of processing 3,000 tests upon start of mass testing; expects capacity to increase | Manila Bulletin – The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday said it can process 3,000 COVID-19 tests daily upon the rollout of the government’s mass testing program. “We are confident that our laboratories can do a total of 3,000 tests a day by April 14,” said Special Assistant to the Secretary of Health Director Dr. Beverly Ho in a press briefing. The Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) currently has the capacity to run 1,000 tests daily, while the seven sub-national laboratories can process a total of 500 tests per day, Ho said.
RapidPass ID system to simplify frontliners’ passage – Nograles | The Manila Times – The government on Friday rolled out a virtual identification system aimed at ensuring easier passage through checkpoints for frontliners and other exempted individuals from the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Cabinet Secretary Karlo Alexei Nograles said frontliners would be given QR codes that would be scanned whenever they pass through control points.
