Benguet Caretaker Rep. Eric Go Yap remains negative of COVID-19

Cordillera - The Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) has issued a public apology for declaring Benguet Caretaker Rep. Eric Go Yap positive of the COVID-19.

Yap was initially reported as positive of the COVID-19 on March 25.

According to RITM, the "results are by no means a false positive" and it said that the "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 for Tropical Medicine (DOH-RITM)".

Here is the full notice of public apology from RITM Facebook page.