“For the past four weeks, you can see that contact tracing largely deteriorated,” Magalong told lawmakers in Filipino. So, technically, there’s no contact tracing.”Contact tracing czar and Baguio City Mayor Benjie Magalong presents data showing that contact tracing in the country has largely deteriorated in the past four weeks. RELATED: How the house-to-house search for people with COVID-19 symptoms will be doneHe also said that many of those who were trained for contact tracing did not relay what they learned to their local governments, while local governments did not use contact tracing analytical tools and did not collaborate with uniformed personnel for contact tracing. Moving forward, Magalong said they will try to retrain local governments on contact tracing and support them for the analysis of their COVID-19 cases. According to the World Health Organization, contact tracing, along with robust testing, isolation and care of cases, is a key strategy for interrupting the transmission of COVID-19.

Source: Philippine Star March 30, 2021 08:48 UTC