Philippine Red Cross chairman and Senator Richard Gordon (second from left) leads the inauguration of PRC’s sixth molecular laboratory in Batangas City. Donated by LT Group Inc., the listed holding firm of tycoon Lucio Tan, the new lab is capable of conducting 4,000 COVID-19 tests daily using its own automated RNA Extraction and Polymerase Chain Reaction machine. Open to the public since July 11, the lab can also detect tuberculosis, cancer, HIV, dengue, malaria, hepatitis and Zika, among others. With Gordon are (from left) LT Group chief finance officer Jose Gabriel Olives, lawyer Raul Academia of PMFTC and Asia Brewery vice president Rocky Rivera.
