MANILA, Philippines — The Marikina City government on Tuesday announced that it is set to open a local COVID-19 testing center even without Department of Health accreditation to address the public health emergency immediately. The city will operate its local testing center on Friday. The DOH earlier warned that rapid test kits can produce false positive and false negative. The country's Food and Drug Administration earlier said trained health professionals should evaluate and interpret the results of rapid test kits. "We have to be very cautious is using these rapid test kits because they measure antibodies and not the viral load itself.

Source: Philippine Star April 14, 2020 04:52 UTC