The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) medical team at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) will temporarily stop its COVID-19 swab testing operations on all Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) and non- OFWs arriving in the country.
PCG NAIA terminal 2 Officer in Charge Edison Abanilla said that as of June 1, it stopped the conduct of swab testing on all arriving OFWs due to lack of stock of testing kits.
“We do not have enough stock of the testing kits to be used on all OFWs scheduled to arrive at the NAIA,” he said.
On June 1, more than 500 seafarers and land-based OFWs who arrived from Kuwait at NAIA Terminal 2 did not undergo swab testing.
Abanilla said that once the testing kits are available, they will be the one to go to the quarantine facilities serving the OFWs and seafarers to conduct the swab testing.
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