The massive swab testing of known close contacts of COVID-19 confirmed cases continue is now on its 2nd week in 2 different fixed posts.
Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo has deployed personnel and other resources in cooperation with the Department of Health Region 7 and the Integrated Provincial Health Office for the massive swab RT-PCR testing of close contacts so that they will be promptly identified, isolated and treated as means to control the rising COVID-19 infections.
DOH-7 has provided the swab kits and dedicated its regional laboratory to test run all collected samples in Cebu while the Integrated Provincial Health Office has deployed additional medical personnel to augment the manpower needed.
The massive swab testing of close contacts and the vaccination of thousands of frontliners and senior citizens are among the strategies utilized to methodically control the surge of COVID-19 cases.