In some instances, the controversy involved family or staff members of these government officials, who had reportedly also gotten testing in violation of the algorithm.From the day it first became able to conduct tests on January 30, 2020 until it was ready to conduct progressive Mass Testing on April 14, 2020, the DOH had used the triage algorithm as a system for maximize resources, because COVID-19 test kits were scarce, and there were few laboratories capable of processing the test results.