(MANILA BULLETIN)
In a report to Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in London said the 26 new cases consisted of nurses and health care workers whose conditions were reported in the last two days.
Labor Attache Amy Reyes did not indicate in the report whether or not any of the Filipinos were infected with the new strain of novel coronavirus.
It will be recalled that it was England’s medical authorities that first confirmed the existence of the new COVID-19 variant that is said to be more contagious.
The number of new positive cases among Filipinos brought to 776 the total of medical frontliners infected with the dreaded disease.