(From right to left) Clark Development Corporation (CDC) President and CEO Noel F. Manankil, Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) Senior Vice President Joshua Bingcang, Mabalacat City Mayor Crisostomo Garbo, Pampanga Governor Dennis Pineda, Senator Richard Gordon, Tarlac Governor Susan Yap, BCDA President and CEO and National Task Force against COVID-19 Deputy Chief Implementer Vivencio Dizon, and officials from Philippine Red Cross (PRC) led the opening of the PRC Bio-Molecular Laboratory in Clark. The laboratory is equipped with Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machines with a testing capacity of 2000 samples per day.
Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) President and CEO and National Task Force against COVID-19 Deputy Chief Implementer Vivencio Dizon (2nd from right), Clark Development Corporation (CDC) President and CEO Noel F. Manankil (extreme left), Mabalacat City Mayor Crisostomo Garbo (2nd from left), Pampanga Governor Dennis Pineda (4th from left), Tarlac Governor Susan Yap (1st from right) joined Senator Richard Gordon (3rd from left) in inspecting the newly opened Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Bio-Molecular Laboratory in Clark. The laboratory will help to ramp up testing capability against COVID-19. Aside from the Bio-molecular laboratory in Clark, a PRC Bio-Molecular Laboratory with the same capacity was also put up in Subic while eight other facilities will also be opened in Batangas, Laguna, Mandaue City, Cebu, Isabela, Cagayan de Oro, Zamboanga City, Bacolod City, and Surigao. CDC-CD Photo
