ASEAN HEADLINES: MANILA- DOH: Minors among new variant cases in Bontoc
Image from the Facebook page of the municipality of Bontoc shows members of the emergency and response team manning a checkpoint to monitor the entry of individuals during the imposition of the ‘tengaw,’ or cultural lockdown last Jan. 9. The tengaw is the indigenous variation of a lockdown which, once invoked, means no one can enter or leave the community for a day or more, depending on the consensus of the council of elders.
MANILA, Philippines — Two minors were among the 16 new cases of the more transmissible UK variant of COVID-19 detected in the country, mostly in Bontoc, Mountain Province, the Department of Health (DOH) reported yesterday.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said the detection of the new cases of B.1.1.7 variant, commonly known as the UK variant, was due to the government’s strengthened bio-surveillance activities.
The development came more than a week after a 29-year-old real estate agent from Kamuning, Quezon City tested positive for the UK variant – the country’s first case – after arriving from Dubai last Dec. 17.\
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