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MANILA, Philippines – There are now 26 testing laboratories in the Philippines that are able to detect SARS CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
This is after the Department of Health (DOH) has approved the accreditation of José B. Lingad Memorial Regional Hospital and Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center as an independent COVID-19 testing center.
“There are now a total of 26 licensed RT-PCR labs across the country, while three and 29 are in stages 4 and 3, respectively,” the DOH said in a report released Sunday.
The 26 COVID-19 test centers are as follows:
Tropical Medicine Research Institute
San Lazaro Hospital
UP National Institutes of Health
Philippine Lung Center
St. Luke’s Medical Center- QC
The medical city – Ortigas
Victoriano Luna – AFRIMS
Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory
San Lucas Medical Center – BGC
Makati Medical Center
Philippine Red Cross
General Chinese Hospital
PRC-PLMC
Philippine Genome Center UP-Diliman
Marikina Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory
UP-PGH Molecular Laboratory
Singapore Diagnostic, Inc.
Baguio General Hospital and CAR Medical Center
J B. Lingad Memorial III Hospital
De La Salle University – Cavite IV-A
Bicol V Regional Diagnostic and Reference Laboratory
Western Visayas Medical Center VI
Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center
Cebu TB Reference Laboratory
Oriental Visayas VIII Regional Medical Center
Southern Philippine Medical Center XI
The government previously said that the country can now perform 12,000 COVID-19 tests daily.
He added that his goal is to carry out 30,000 tests daily, as he appears to have a total of 78 COVID-19 test centers by May 30.
To date, there are 10,794 cases of COVID-19 in the Philippines, including 1,924 recoveries and 719 deaths.
/ MUF
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