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NEW TEST INSTALLATION. Chinese Ambassador Tan QingSheng, Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles and Vice President of Asia Development Bank Ahmed Saeed attended the inauguration of the new coronavirus testing laboratory in San Fernando, Pampanga, the May 9, 2020. Photo courtesy of the Chinese Embassy Facebook Page
MANILA, Philippines – Chinese biotech firm BGI Group has opened a new laboratory in San Fernando, Pampanga, to help boost the country’s coronavirus testing capacity.
In a Facebook post on Saturday, May 9, the Chinese Embassy said the Molecular and Diagnostic Pathology Laboratory, also called the Huo-Yan Laboratory, at the Jose B Lingad Memorial Regional Hospital can analyze 3,000 samples of COVID-19 daily.
The opening ceremony was attended by Tan QingSheng, representative of the Chinese ambassador to the Philippines, Huang Xilian, the Philippine health secretary, Francisco Duque III, the cabinet secretary, Karlo Nograles, and the vice president of the Asian Development Bank, Ahmed Saeed .
There are currently 24 accredited COVD-19 test facilities through the Philippines. The Huo-Yan Laboratory is not yet on this list.
As of Saturday, the country has counted a a total of 10,610 people were infected with COVID-19, 704 cases of which were fatal. Still, 1,842 patients have already recovered from COVID-19.
Some parts of the country remain blocked until Sunday, May 10, to help calm the growing number of cases of the coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan City, which is part of China’s Hubei Province and has since spread to all the world.
Leaders in the United States, along with lawyers in Nigeria and Egypt, He recently sued China for the coronavirus outbreak.
In the Philippines, however, any possibility of this was rejected for now, as Malacañang said, no state obligations were violated.– Rappler.com
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