MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Ambassador to India said the pandemic in the second-most populous country in the world took a turn for the worse due to a concurrence of events: the national government becoming complacent and the emergence of a new, more transmissible variant of COVID-19.
“Ang nangyari nagkasabay-sabay eh. Naging kampante sila kasi bumaba ‘yung kaso mga November to December, tapos pumasok itong [variant] na ito, double mutant,” Philippine Ambassador to India Ramon Bagatsing Jr. said in an interview over ABS-CBN’s TeleRadyo.
(“What happened is that everything happened at the same time. They became complacent because the cases dropped around November to Dec…
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