Davao City and the private sector have initiated complementary initiatives to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 on the local economy while preventing the deadly disease from infecting more residents.
Usec. Vergeire reported that the country’s COVID-19 testing laboratories have performed an average of 19,459 tests per day in the past week, including July 7 with 23,104 tests conducted.
“We will have to rely on them especially considering that the COVID-19 vaccine is yet to be found, though several countries and pharmaceutical companies are racing to develop it.”
"Hiring these graduates as contact tracers, however, will be a boost to tracking down and isolating carriers of the virus, especially now that lockdown measures are being gradually lifted."
“There must be transformation everywhere in food systems from production to consumption and all places in between which will compel us to do things differently.”