Published August 4, 2021, 5:48 PM
DAVAO CITY – The two additional cases of the COVID-19 Delta variant or B.1.617.2 here were exposed to an index case in their respective households, according to a local health official.
Dr. Michelle Schlosser, focal person for the Davao City COVID-19 Task Force, said that the two patients – a 47-year-old male and a 36-year-old female – were both swabbed on the same day last July 7 after they came in direct contact with a positive case.
Their specimens were in the batch of samples submitted by the region last July 15 to the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center (UP-PGC) in Quezon City and results of the genome sequencing came out on the same day last July 29.