According to an existing report, the Philippines has fewer deaths from coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in line with millions of other people than other countries.
In a recent webinar organized through the National Academy of Science and Technology, Dr. Cynthia Saloma, Executive Director of the Genome Center at the University of the Philippines-Philippines, said the country had conducted approximately 3 million tests by September 9. , had 33 deaths consistent with millions of inhabitants.
By comparison, the United States has 567 deaths consistent with millions of inhabitants and 6. 2 million; United Kingdom, 611 deaths consisting of one million inhabitants and 337,168 in total; and Canada, 242 deaths of one million inhabitants with 129,182
“This is a testament to the efforts of our fitness and government professionals for the number of deaths due to Covid in our own country,” Saloma said.
“We avoid shooting ourselves. We’re not as bad as South America, Europe, the United States, Canada,” he said.
Saloma added that the Food and Drug Administration has approved 85 polymerized chain reaction kits with opposite transcription (RT-PCR) as a component of the Emergency Use Authorization Program (USA). U. S. A. ).
RT-PCR verification, considered to be the “gold standard” in Covid-19 verification, can also be the subject of errors, performed through operators, reagents or verification kits, or the device or software itself, he said.
To ensure reliability and efficiency, verification personnel will need to be professionally trained, molecular biology techniques must be followed, reagents and samples should be stored safely and verification devices must be kept in good condition, Saloma said.
RT-PCR verification also includes warnings, such as when the pattern is taken and the patient is taken well; the sensitivity of RT-PCR, which would possibly measure much low viral in mild or asymptomatic individuals; and overlapping symptoms of influenza and Covid-19.
“That’s why we envision that this can be done with saliva tests, because it will replace play in the way the collection will be done, because the patients themselves can do the collection,” Saloma said.
“This is a new challenge, so we’re all perfecting strategies as the pandemic develops,” he added.
On Thursday, the Philippines added 3,821 new ones to its Covid-19 workload of 248,947.
There are 563 recoveries, bringing the total to 186,058.
The death toll exceeded 4,000, with 86 new deaths, bringing the total to 4066.
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