Opposition senators urged the coronavirus task force to allow the use of COVID-19 test kits developed by the UP National Institutes for Health, which are cheaper than the imported test kits now being used more widely.
Opposition senators called on President Rodrigo Duterte's coronavirus task force to allow the use of COVID-19 test kits developed by thewhich are cheaper than the imported test kits now being used more widely.
"The country is ramping up COVID-19 testing, but locally manufactured, world-class P1,320-PCR test kits are gathering dust in laboratories due to the inaction of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III," said the senators.
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