Testing for COVID-19 in Cebu may slow down for a few days following the “decontamination” of the main laboratory at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center. | daleCDN
Bernadas said they also need an automated ribonucleic acid extractor to expedite the examination of swab samples.“The automated RNA extractors are coming. When both will arrive, we can have a capacity of 2,000 to 3,000 tests per day. We’re also addressing the importation process of the extractors care of our partners,” he said.On May 13, there were about 329 tests conducted while on May 14, only 88 tests were released for the entire Central Visayas region.
Since the start of operations of the COVID-19 testing laboratories here, the entire island of Cebu was able to test 11,792 as of May 15. Some 8,436 were swab tested in Cebu City and 1,536, in Cebu province. Cebu City has a population of 1.01 million residents while Cebu Province has a population of 3.22 million as of May 11.
A total of 1,057 were also tested in Mandaue City while Lapu-Lapu City conducted 763 tests since March. Mandaue City has a population of 398,106 while Lapu-Lapu City has 448,008 residents.
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