Vice President Leni Robredo expressed worry over the capacity of the Philippines to detect coronavirus variants, believing the actual number of cases of the more infectious Delta variant could be more than the recorded 35.
“Very limited ang processing capacity so nag-prioritize. Pwedeng marami pa, hindi lang 35,” she said during her weekly radio show on Sunday.
She stressed the government should bolster the capacity of the Philippine Genome Center given the emergence of new coronavirus variants, especially the Delta variant which is believed to be 60% more contagious than the Alpha variant and can cause severe symptoms. The center, Saloma noted, only has five machines. She stressed if only the PGC has additional manpower and facilities in other parts of the country, sequence efforts would be “scaled up twice”.
Robredo stressed that once this Delta variant triggers a new surge, the Philippines would be in a dark position to handle the increasing cases.
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