THE Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), the country’s main testing center for Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), scaled down its operations after one of its staff was infected by the virus, the Department of Health said on Wednesday.

“They had to do contact tracing and some of these employees na kasama natin na gumagawa sa lab ay na-quarantine sila (who are with us in the lab were quarantined),” said Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, also concurrent spokesman.

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