{"id":58654,"date":"2021-01-28T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=58654"},"modified":"2021-01-27T14:46:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T06:46:13","slug":"approval-of-saliva-testing-for-covid-19-a-welcome-development-to-stimulate-and-boost-air-travel-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2021\/01\/28\/approval-of-saliva-testing-for-covid-19-a-welcome-development-to-stimulate-and-boost-air-travel-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Approval of Saliva Testing For COVID-19, A Welcome Development To Stimulate And Boost Air Travel Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"

AirAsia<\/strong> welcomes the recent approval of saliva testing for COVID-19<\/strong>, a positive development towards stimulating air travel demand.<\/p>\n

\"\"AirAsia Logo \/ IMAGE from AirAsia PH Facebook page<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

On Monday, 25 January 2021, the Department of Health (DOH)<\/strong> approved the RT-PCR Saliva testing for COVID-19 after the successful pilot testing conducted by the Philippine Red Cross (PRC)<\/strong> yielded 98.11% accuracy.<\/p>\n

RT-PCR Saliva testing generates faster results within three to four hours, after samples have been collected. It is also cheaper at P1,500-P2,000 compared to the RT-PCR swab test which ranges from P3,500-5,000.<\/p>\n

Prior to this, only PRC laboratories are allowed to conduct the saliva test pending the parallel validation test being conducted by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM).<\/p>\n

AirAsia Philippines Spokesperson Steve Dailisan <\/strong>said that this will definitely positively increase the appetite of air travelers, especially for AirAsia leisure destinations such as Boracay and Bohol that require RT-PCR test. Saliva RT-PCR test is not only cheaper but also non-invasive and less stringent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile waiting for the vaccine, you can be assured that AirAsia will continue to find ways to offer cheaper alternatives, to lessen the financial burden of the flying public in fulfilling the requirements for air travel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

AirAsia\u2019s partner diagnostic laboratory, Philippine Airport Diagnostic Laboratory (PADLab) is now in the process of securing formal endorsement from DOH to facilitate the saliva test very soon.<\/p>\n

\"\"AirAsia and PADLab officials \/ IMAGE from\u00a0AirAsia PH Facebook page<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Guests will enjoy discounted rates from AirAsia\u2019s partner laboratories when they avail of their services via airasia.com.<\/p>\n

AirAsia recently earned a perfect 7-star rating from Airlineratings.com for going above and beyond the protection of its passengers against COVID-19.<\/p>\n

For the latest AirAsia news, activities and promotions, follow AirAsia on Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0 Facebook<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This is a press release. Minor edits were made prior to publishing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AirAsia welcomes the recent approval of saliva testing for COVID-19, hoping it would reinvigorate the airline industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[7398,12848,301,14383,119,14381,14382],"class_list":["post-58654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-airasia","tag-covid-19","tag-doh","tag-padlab","tag-philippines","tag-saliva-testing","tag-travel-safe"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/01\/rsz_1airasialogo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58654"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58665,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58654\/revisions\/58665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}