THERE is a compelling need today for the Department of Health (DoH) and its overburdened Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) to issue an official statement on the thorny controversy that has arisen from the irregular conduct of testing for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and the freestyle announcement of purported results.

We emphasize here the term “official statement” because a statement is what is needed, not a text message or a tweet.

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