Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Sunday that he did not use his influence over the Department of Health (DOH) in being tested for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) amid the lack of testing kits in the country.
In a statement posted on his Facebook page on Sunday night, Sotto admitted that he was tested twice for the disease in fear of his exposure to persons under investigation or persons under monitoring .“This was done with the help of a friend from a private sector who has a testing kit which is not yet approved by DOH and FDA . Its accuracy has not been certified yet and it is a very simple testing strip with instant results,” Sotto said.
On Tuesday, March 17, he told media that he, along with Senators Pia Cayetano, Panfilo Lacson, Imee Marcos, Grace Poe, Ramon Revilla Jr., and Francis Tolentino, were tested by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine in his office at the Senate. Reporters were told that they were not manifesting any symptoms then.
He believed he contracted the disease from one of their visitors in the Senate where a COVID-19 patient was also found to have attended a committee hearing.
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