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Cocolife Imbibes in Bayanihan Spirit with ₱1M Donation

to COVID-19 Efforts

AS we pass the one-month mark Hospital’s COVID-19 laboratory, manage our economic welfare.
into the community quarantine, which is currently in the final stages
we’ve seen the public and private of assessment. The government has been ramping
sectors unite in the fight against the up efforts in containing the spread
novel coronavirus. This initiative will significantly of the disease. Accreditation of more
contribute to the expansion of RT- laboratories is crucial in increasing
Setting the example is Cocolife, the PCR testing, which remains the the capacity for COVID-19 testing.
biggest Filipino-owned stock life most accurate method for detecting As of April 24, there are currently
insurance company in the country. the novel coronavirus. This effort 18 accredited testing labs and a
In the spirit of bayanihan, the will also directly affect the lives of daily testing capacity of 4,500. The
company has donated Php 1 million Filipinos as we ease into the new goal is to conduct 30,000 tests per
to UP Manila - National Institutes normal. With an aggressive push day by the end of May. For testing,
of Health for the purchase of 1 RT- for expanded testing, we can isolate the government will be prioritizing
PCR machine. This unit will be COVID-19 patients and shift to a suspected patients, health workers,
installed at the Philippine General modified community quarantine to and high-risk patients.

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