PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur —- Health authorities in Zamboanga del Sur have said that a resident in Labangan town was confirmed to have the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) variant that was first detected in the United Kingdom.
Dr. Anatalio Cagampang Jr., provincial health officer, said the patient is a 38-year-old woman who worked in Kuwait and had just returned home.
The patient had already recovered from COVID-19, although the genome sequencing result was known only on March 15.
The patient arrived in Manila on Feb. 14 and went on a weeklong quarantine. He was swabbed for a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction test on Feb. 20 and was found positive for COVID-1…
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