The new coronavirus variants that were recently detected in the Philippines are “indirectly” linked to the surge in infections in parts of the country, the resident epidemiologist of the Department of Health (DOH) said Friday. “One evidence that the variant could be causing this surge is we detected the variant just before [the] cases started to rise. There’s some indirect evidence na the variant is causing this surge,” Dr. John Wong said in a.
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February 22, 2021 DAVAO City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said there is a need to intensify Davao City’s sending of specimen samples to Manila for genomic sequencing as part of the city s improved biosurveillance against the new Covid-19 variant.
This is on the heels of the city s first confirmed B.1.1.7 variant of Sars-CoV-2 case.
On Friday, February 12, 2021, the Department of Health (DOH) reported that a 10-year-old male, a 54-year-old female and a 33-year-old male, with indicated addresses in Davao Region, tested positive for the B.1.1.7 variant, also known as the UK variant. The three have no known link to each other.
The Provincial Government of Davao de Oro confirmed that the 54-year-old female and 33-year-old male were from their province, while City Health Office Acting Head Dr. Ashley Lopez confirmed in a radio interview that the 10-year-old male was from Davao City.
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Contributed photo February 18, 2021 THE Tagum City Government in Davao del Norte is monitoring 24 cases of F2 and F3 exposure to the two Covid-19 UK variant cases reported over the weekend in Davao de Oro.
Tagum City Health Office Chief Dr. Arnel Florendo said on Wednesday, February 17, during the Kapihan sa DavNor that based on the list, eight are categorized as F2 and the rest are at F3 level.
Florendo said F2 refers to those who have exposure to F1, which means those who had direct exposure with a confirmed Covid-19 case, while F3 refers to those who had close contact with F2.