CEBU CITY — Government officials here deplored the act of two national agencies calling the new COVID-19 variant in the country as the “Central Visayas variant.”
Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, spokesperson and chief pathologist of the Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7), described as “discriminatory and lack of courtesy” a social media post of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) on Tuesday that named the Central Visayas variant as among the COVID-19 variants that infected many Filipinos.
“It seems that the region was singled out with the rest of the country. Central Visayas is not distant to the Philippines,” she said in a press conference on Wednesday…
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