MANILA, Philippines — A health expert being consulted by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) on Friday said that the coronavirus disease variants could be causing the recent surge of COVID-19 cases in the country.
The Department of Health announced earlier the detection of 52 new cases of the B.1.351 COVID-19 variant from South Africa (South Africa variant) and 31 additional cases of B.1.1.7 variant of COVID-19 from the United Kingdom (UK variant) in the country.
While there is indirect link between the variants and the drastic spike of COVID-19 cases,Dr. John Wong, a member of the IATF technical working group on data analytics said this development…
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