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The Department of Tourism (DOT) has urged health facilities to lower the cost of RT-PCR (Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction) tests to encourage more people to travel and hasten the recovery of the tourism industry from the pandemic. Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat noted that testing for COVID-19 remains expensive and out of reach of budget-conscious […]
The city government of Iloilo is offering free reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests to students who will be required to present a negative result when going back to their school. “Any school that requests for a free RT-PCR test we are giving them for free, at the same time only a few of our […]
COVID-19 swab test prices “are not written in stone” and the rules in determining them call on the government to order price cuts whenever market conditions warrant, Senator Joel Villanueva appealed. “Hindi po forever ang itinakdang presyo para sa RT-PCR test,” said the chair of the Senate committee on labor and employment, referring to the […]