Hiring of contact tracers will proceed as planned, an official of the Department of Health (DOH) said.
“Contract tracing is an integral part of our overall response strategy to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will need to proceed,” Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said, reacting to Senate President Vicente Sotto III who earlier called for the postponement of the hiring of contact tracers.
“It will be wiser and more practical to divert the P11.7 billion for the treatment of patients. We need funds to treat our sick kababayans,” Sotto said on Monday (June 1).
“We would like to highlight contract tracing as part of our Covid response. We often say test, test and test but we are doing more aside from testing,” Vergeire said .
The DOH needs P11.7 billion budget for the hiring of 130,000 contact tracers for three months to cover a 1:800 ratio in the entire country.
Vergeire said contact tracing is not an easy job. It is very important to identify close contacts of confirmed Covid cases and isolate them immediately to prevent the transmission.
Vergeire noted that persons deemed “close contact” are those exposed to infected persons less than one meter apart and within a close setting for hours.
Those falling in this category will be isolated for 14 days and monitored for symptoms. Only those showing symptoms will be tested as stated under DOH protocol, as prioritized for Covid-19 tests.
These include severe and critically ill, symptomatic individuals and those vulnerable sectors (e.g., 60 years old or older, have other illnesses such as hypertension and diabetes, or are immunocompromised).
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