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Gov. Art Yap reports the following highlights in the meeting of the governors yesterday with DOH:
 
·       Prioritization in Covid testing is now symptoms-based. This means that an individual who manifests no Covid symptom is allowed to proceed in going home to his or her province without the need of testing; and there is no more targets per province as to percentage of testing.
 
·       DOH targets to have “a total of 1.5 million tests by the end of July”. So far, the DOH has already conducted a total of 506,000 tests. 1.5 million is about 1.5 percent of our population.
 
·       Testing for subgroups A and B is non-negotiable and they are prioritized.
Based on DOH Department Memorandum 2020-0285, subgroup A refers to patients or healthcare workers with severe/critical symptoms, and relevant history of travel or close contact; while subgroup B refers to patients or healthcare workers with mild symptoms, with relevant history of travel or close contact and who are considered vulnerable. These vulnerable populations include the elderly and those with pre-existing medical conditions that predispose them to severe presentation and complications of COVID-19.
 
·       With the addition of subgroups E and F, DOH is optimistic to achieve the overall goal of 1.5 million tests by end of July.
 
Subgroup E includes “personnel manning temporary treatment and quarantine facilities; personnel manning control points; National/Regional/Local Risk Reduction and Management teams; Barangay  Health  Emergency  Response  Teams    and barangay officials providing barangay border control; personnel of Bureau of Corrections and Bureau of Jail Management and Penology; personnel serving at COVID-19 swabbing center; and social workers providing amelioration and relief assistance to communities and performing COVOD-19 related tasks”.
 
Subgroup F includes “pregnant patients who shall be tested during the peripartum period and dialysis patients and immunocompromised patients with HIV, those chemotherapy or radiotherapy”.
 
CONTACT TRACING APP
 
·       IATF is endorsing StaySafe application which is now being reviewed by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), National Privacy Commission, DOH and DILG. Based on the evaluation, a component of the application was removed so that its use would be strictly for contact tracing related to Covid only.
 
·       LGUs may use contract tracing apps, other than the StaySafe app, as long channeling of all information to the DOH Covid guide can be efficient.
 
·       DILG Sec. Ed Año, who heads the team focusing on the contact tracing mechanisms, will still have to discuss this matter with the LGUs so that its implementation would be smooth if there are LGUs that would use digital contact tracing through apps other than the StaySafe app.
 
RE ANTI-TERRORISM BILL
·       â€œWith respect to the anti-terrorism bill, our lawyers are still studying our position and we will circulate our position on this matter.”- -League of Provinces of the Philippines

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