{"id":5307,"date":"2020-03-18T09:16:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T09:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=5307"},"modified":"2020-03-18T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T09:16:14","slug":"no-test-kits-for-covid-19-available-in-market-for-public-use-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/no-test-kits-for-covid-19-available-in-market-for-public-use-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"No test kits for Covid-19 available in market for public use &#8211; DOH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>There are still no test kits for the new coronavirus (Covid-19) available in the market for public use, according to the Department of Health (DOH).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, all tests are done at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM). And if there are test kits in the market, they are not registered with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) so don&#8217;t patronize them,&#8221; said DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire in Filipino and English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vergeire added clearances for various Covid-19 test kits, including the SARS CoV-2 PCR Detection Kit developed by local scientists at the University of the Philippines-National Institutes of Health, will be released in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are still no test kits for the new coronavirus (Covid-19) available in the market for public use, according to the Department of Health (DOH).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2296,2294,639],"class_list":["post-5307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-department-of-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5309,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307\/revisions\/5309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}