SEN. Richard Gordon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC), said that the PRC’s testing capacity for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is expected to increase further as its bio-molecular laboratory in Clark formally opened this Friday.

Gordon said the laboratory in Clark, which was built in partnership with the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA), was now up and ready to run after it passed the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine's (RITM) proficiency test last week and was accredited as a certified Covid-19 testing center.

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