Negative! RITM, binawi ang unang inilabas na resulta na C0VID-19 positive si Yap

Humingi ng paumanhin ang Research Institute for Tropical Medicine o RITM kay ACT-CIS party-list Rep. Eric Go Yap matapos itong magkamali umano sa paglabas ng resultang C0VID-19 positive ang opisyal.

“We wish to publicly apologize to Cong. Eric Go Yap of ACT-CIS Partylist for forwarding a report of his COVID-19 results that displayed a clerical oversight. Rep. Yap remains negative of COVID-19,” saad ng RITM sa isang statement.


“His results are by no means a false positive. This isolated incident was brought about by an encoding error which was discovered late last night (March 26) by the Molecular Biology Laboratory (MBL) of the Department of Health-Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (DOH-RITM)”, pagpapatuloy nito.

"It is with a heavy heart that I share to all of you that I tested positive for coronavirus," pagbabahagi ni Yap sa publiko noong Miyerkules.

Narito ang buong statement:

We wish to publicly apologize to Cong. Eric Go Yap of ACT-CIS Partylist for forwarding a report of his COVID-19 results that displayed a clerical oversight.

Rep. Yap remains negative of COVID-19.

His results are by no means a false positive. This isolated incident was brought about by an encoding error which was discovered late last night by the Molecular Biology Laboratory (MBL) of the Department of Health-Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (DOH-RITM).

We maintain that our testing process is compliant with the World Health Organization (WHO) protocol, and that our results remain accurate despite this incident. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing procedure still stands as the gold standard in detecting the genetic sequence of the SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19.

Again, we profusely and sincerely apologize to Hon. Eric Go Yap for the unnecessary discomfort this incident has caused. The individual responsible for the incident was enlisted as an augmentation staff from outside the regular workforce of the laboratory. Said employee is already being dealt with administratively.

For the assurance of the public, we have reviewed all results we have previously forwarded and we affirm that this incident remains isolated. We have also added another layer of verification for all succeeding reports we will submit.

We promise that this, and other associated incidents, will never happen again.

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