1st COVID-19 Test Lab In A PH Airport Opens At MCIA
Manila Bulletin|July 16, 2020
CEBU CITY – The Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) began operations of the country’s first airport-dedicated coronavirus disease (COVID-19) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test laboratory on Wednesday, July 15.
Minerva BC Newman
1st COVID-19 Test Lab In A PH Airport Opens At MCIA

According to MCIA operator GMR MEGAWIDE Cebu Airport Corporation (GMCAC), the 400-sqm. laboratory was designed to process 1,500 to 3,000 tests per day with test results available within 24 hours, the quickest testing period among test labs in the Philippines.

The laboratory is manned and operated by Prime Care Medgruppe that has been accredited and certified by the Department of Health (DOH) and the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) with a BSL-2 certification.

Equipped with its own heating, ventilator and air-conditioning system, the lab’s state-of-the-art equipment also includes two MagNA Pure 96 System that can process up to 96 RNA samples each in less than two hours, compared to the manual process that usually takes four to six hours.

It also has two LightCycler 480 Instrument II that can amplify and analyze a total of 184 samples in 90 minutes. The construction of the laboratory started on June 1, with the first swab sample processed on June 21.

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