More than preparing emergency relief for their constituents, the Local Government Units (LGUs) play a crucial role in monitoring and disease surveillance of COVID-19 possible patients in their respective communities. LGUs can put in place contact tracing systems such as the TanodCOVID.
Evidence-based forecasts of possible cases and scenarios on the spread of COVID-19 in the counry can now be accessed thanks to the Feasibility Analysis of Syndromic Surveillance using Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler or FASSSTER.
To help in the country's battle against COVID-19 , the Department of Science and Technology Regional Office IV-A (DOST IV-A) and the Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD) deployed 106 units of RxBox to the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) which is one of the designated COVID-19 referral centers in Luzon.
Face Shields turned over by DOST-X staff Mark Candole to Maj. Pumbaya of IATF
Volunteers among the Department of Science and Technology-X’s employees gathered to create face shields for COVID19 front liners within the city. A total of 250 face shields were created and received by Maj. Pumbaya of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for COVID19 on March 26, 2020.
