Published March 9, 2021, 4:54 PM
Even the contact tracing czar himself is “frustrated” with the country’s contact tracing system.
Baguio City mayor and appointed contact tracing head Benjamin Magalong lamented on Tuesday, March 9, the confusion and delay over the use of contact tracing applications to help track close contacts of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients.
Mayor Benjamin Magalong
(JJ Landingin / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
At the House Committee on Health’s hearing on the resolution calling for a “unified national contact tracing protocol”, Magalong said that he was “suprised” that national government agencies and local government units (LGUs) are using different applications for their contact tracing efforts.