MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) has already verified details of the five additional confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) variant, and said one of the cases is linked to the Covid-19 cluster in the Metro Rail Transit-3 (MRT-3) depot.
DOH Undersecretary and spokesperson Maria Rosario Vergeire on Monday said that the five are among the six additional persons with the Covid-19 variant and who were earlier being verified if they were local cases or returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs).
“Of the six new individuals detected with the variant, five of them were already verified,” Vergeire said in…
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