Macau mandatory COVID testing for Filipinos ‘purely a health issue’

MANILA, Philippines --- The mandatory COVID-19 testing of Filipinos in Macau is "purely a health issue," the Philippine Consulate General in China's Special Administrative Region said in a statement issued on Saturday. "And yet there are those who remain focused on politicizing this," the consulate said. Last Thursday, Macau health official Leong Iek Hou announced that any resident holding a Philippine passport must take a daily nucleic acid test for COVID-19, which started on Friday. Citing government figures, he said Filipinos accounted for 9.5 percent of Macau's total cases of the new coronavirus in this outbreak, according to a Bloomberg report. The order sparked crit...

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