MANILA, Philippines — The government should strictly monitor people coming from abroad to block the entry of the dreaded Delta variant of COVID-19, which has caused disastrous surges in India, a health expert said on Monday during the taped weekly briefing with President Rodrigo Duterte.
According to infectious diseases expert Dr. Edsel Maurice Salvana, the Delta variant is 60 percent more infectious than the United Kingdom variant — which by itself is 60 percent more infectious than the original strain from Wuhan, China.
Salvana is the director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the National Institutes of Health at the University of the Philippines …
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