TUGUEGARAO CITY — The Tuguegarao City government has asked health officials to determine if nine patients infected with the B.1.1.7 SARS CoV2 (or the United Kingdom variant) were responsible for the accelerated transmissions now plaguing the city.
Tuguegarao Mayor Jefferson Soriano made this appeal in his Thursday (May 27) letter to the Department of Health after the city recorded an average daily attack rate (ADAR) of 26.63 percent. The ADAR measures the proportion of infected cases against the population to determine the potential trajectory of COVID-19 in a town or a neighborhood.
The mayor said the variant patients may have some infl…
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