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Taguig to begin barangay-based COVID-19 testing next week

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/news/04/17/20200324-covid-lockdown-bgc-taguig-gc-1390.jpg"/><figcaption>A health worker crosses a street in BGC, Taguig on March 24, 2020. George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News/File</figcaption></figure></div>MANILA - Taguig City will begin next week its barangay-based testing for the novel coronavirus, Mayor Lino Cayetano said, over a month into the Luzon-wide lockdown aimed at curbing the pandemic. Instead of putting up a lone testing site, the city government will put up screening sites near health centers of the city&#x27;s 28 barangays, said the mayor. The testing will cover 5 barangays per day starting Wednesday, he said. &quot;Kahit anong increase ho sa ating kapasidad sa testing, kung lahat ho ng testing ginagawa natin sa isa o 2 lugar lang, limitado pa rin,&quot; he told reporters. (No matter how much we increase testing capacity, if all testing is being done in just one or two sites, that&#x27;s still limited.)&quot;We plan to roll it out next week and we will spend the next few days preparing &#x27;yung ating [our] health centers, dahil sisiguraduhin natin na safe at protected yung ating frontliners (we will make sure our frontliners are safe and protected),&quot; he added. The testing will prioritize patients and health workers with COVID-19 symptoms, those who had close contact with carriers of the virus, patients who have recovered and need negative results to get discharged, the elderly, those with pre-existing medical conditions, and frontliners. Taguig, home to some 270,000 families, confirmed as of Wednesday 174 cases of COVID-19. The tally includes 12 deaths and 19 patients who recovered. The city&#x27;s epidemiology and disease surveillance unit has screened some 700 people for the novel coronavirus since March, said its chief, Dr. Jun Sy. -- Report from Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News

Taguig next week will begin its barangay-based testing for the novel coronavirus, Mayor Lino Cayetano said, a month into the Luzon-wide lockdown aimed at curbing the pandemic.

Taguig next week will begin its barangay-based testing for the novel coronavirus, Mayor Lino Cayetano said, a month into the Luzon-wide lockdown aimed at curbing the pandemic.