The Department of Health (DoH) will hold town hall meetings with local government units (LGUs) to explain to them the new rules on recovered coronavirus patients. Some local governments are reluctant to accept DoH’s interim guidelines. She said multiple RT-PCR tests on recovered patients would be burdensome to them both physically and psychologically. “If we are not going to follow, talagang hindi mag-aayos ang health system capacity natin (Our health system capacity will not be fixed),” Vergeire said. RT-PCR tests can detect the virus but it does not tell a person if he is infectious or not.

Source: Manila Times August 10, 2020 16:30 UTC