A New Era in Infectious Disease Testing

Abstract

http://philippinejournalofpathology.org | Vol. 5 No. 2 December 2020 Scarcely a year ago, we heard the rumblings of a looming pandemic. What followed was a journey of selfdiscovery for the Philippine Society of Pathologists and its members. Early on, we watched helplessly while the pandemic raged on in our country, handicapped by the lack of laboratory resources to test the increasing number of cases. Only the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) was equipped and enabled to test for SARS-CoV-2 at that point in time. Most molecular testing was done in private hospitals where the emphasis was on oncology.