On April 14, 2020, the Philippines' national government began "progressive mass testing" for COVID-19[9] after it received "tens of thousands of testing kits" from various donor countries,[10] and SARS-COV-2 test kits produced by the University of the Philippines' Philippine Genome Center became available.[11] To process these tests, the DOH reported that "dozens of testing laboratories" would come online within the month.[10]