Barangays told to begin ILI Surveillance System

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The barangays in Cebu City are told to begin the Influenza-like-Illness Surveillance system to track down all residents with symptoms of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 .

Consequently, the city has already declared a general community quarantine despite having no recorded cases yet.Clustered testing will also be easier for the laboratory because one positive sample would immediately indicate that all those specimens from the same cluster could prove positive to the virus as well.

“Let us hope and pray it will work out. We are the first local government to do the surveillance. Let us give the surveillance a chance,” said Zuasula20K test kits from OPAV now in Cebu; FDA adds more registered producers

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