HAPPENING NOW: Valenzuela City holds press briefing on local #COVID19 response.

Mayor Rex Gatchalian says, of the first set of 20 targeted mass testing, 2 tested positive, while 18 negative. | via @raffsantos

Gatchalian says the 2 positive cases will be isolated, and had earlier tested positive for #COVID19

One will be moved to the hospital, the other to a city rented isolation area. | via @raffsantos

Valenzuela also expanding capacity to test to 115 tests per day after tapping additional partner laboratory to process samples taken by LGUs medical teams. | via @raffsantos #COVID19

The city says it can finish testing all its suspect cases by the weekend, and next in line to be tested are frontliners and returning OFWs by next week. | via @raffsantos #COVID19

With the new partner facility, the city says it can test as many as 805 people a week.

Mayor Gatchalian says the tests will help the LGU recalibrate lockdowns in its barangays. | via @raffsantos #COVID19

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian bats for mass testing protocols for LGUs, says mass testing will enable government to see whether it can adjust lockdown measures and gradually open up the economy. | via @raffsantos #COVID19