DOH released an advisory on COVID-19 swab test results requested via online FOI portal.
The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday released an advisory on COVID-19 swab test results requested via online FOI portal.
In an advisory that was posted on its official Facebook page, the Department of Health had been receiving a lot of requests for the release of COVID-19 swab test results via the online FOI portal.
The Department of Health informed the public that the COVID-19 swab test results may not be requested from and released via the FOI portal as this constituted a violation of Republic Act 10173 or the Data Privacy Act of 2012.
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In addition, the Department of Health said that the release and dissemination of the requested results was also prohibited because it contained personal information of patients not for public consumption.
For follow-ups about the results of the COVID-19 swab tests, the Department of Health said that the testing center — which conducted the COVID-19 swab testing — would be the appropriate office to address the said request.
As of 4:00 p.m. of October 26, 2020, the country’s coronavirus tally had climbed to 371,630 after the Department of Health announced 1,607 newly-recorded COVID-19 infections.
Of these, 36,333 were recorded as total active cases, 328,258 were recorded as total recoveries, and 7,039 were recorded as total deaths.
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