MANILA, Philippines — Only two of the 350 close contacts of the former overseas Filipino worker from Korea, who tested positive for the UK variant, were infected with Covid-19, according to Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Tuesday.
“We were able to contact trace 350 individuals. Can you imagine that? Resources being spent on one person just because protocols were not followed,” Belmonte said in an interview over the ABS-CBN News Channel.
“Thankfully, only two people were found to be positive, and of these two people, we’re still waiting for the results from the Philippine Genome Center as to whether they have the UK variant,” she added. “It was a very tough thing to do.”
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