CITY OF SAN FERNANDO —- A case of the South African variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been detected in Minalin town, Pampanga province Thursday.
Minalin Mayor Edgar Flores said the virus has infected a 36-year-old woman who returned from Dubai last February.
The patient was the first known South African variant case in the province.
She did not go home under the Balik Pampanga program for returning Filipinos, which means that the swabbing, quarantine, and medical clearance were done and issued by national agencies.
The woman would be brought to an isolation facility in New Clark City, according to Dr. Dax Tidula, COVID-19 incidents chief of the provincial government…
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