Video PlayerClose MANILA, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) — The Philippines has detected 16 additional cases of the more contagious COVID-19 variant first found in Britain, bringing the total number of patients with the new strain in the country to 17, the Department of Health (DOH) announced on Friday. The DOH said in a statement that 12 of the 16 additional cases are from Bontoc town in the northern Philippine Mountain Province. Of the 12 cases, seven are male and five are female. Town health officials immediately conducted contact tracing to contain the spread of the infection. The investigation is also underway to identify these cases’ exposure and travel histories, the DOH said. Two other patients with the variant are returning overseas Filipinos who arrived on Dec. 29, 2020, from Lebanon. The DOH said the two other patients with the variant are local cases detected in La Trinidad town in Benguet province in the northern Philippines and Calamba City in Laguna province, south of Manila. “Both have no known contact to any confirmed case or travel history from outside the country,” the DOH added. Of the 16 patients, the DOH said three have already recovered, 13 are active cases — three of… Read full this story
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