It’s a pandemic, it’s a medical emergency, so our response should be medical in nature also,” Gatchalian told the Inquirer. With the surge in coronavirus cases, however, one contact tracing team will have to handle five cases. One way or the other, you might ignore your other cases because you are just so overwhelmed with the number of cases,” Magalong said. COVID Kaya is a data collection system used by medical front-liners for submitting data on COVID-19 cases. Florece told the Inquirer that LGUs could use their emergency disaster fund to give additional protection benefits to their contact tracers.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 16, 2020 20:48 UTC