(Eagle News) — The 35-year-old man who was found to have the United Kingdom variant of the COVID-19 virus has already tested negative for COVID-19. Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte said in a television interview that the results were based on a re-swabbing done on the man, a former Overseas Filipino Worker in South Korea, in the city’s Hope facility. In a virtual briefing on Thursday, Belmonte said the local government was also planning to file […]
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QC gov’t: 35-year-old man positive for UK variant; contact tracing underway
(Eagle News) — Another individual has tested positive for the United Kingdom variant of COVID-19 in the Philippines. The Quezon City government said the individual was a 35-year-old male who had been quarantined for COVID-19 in an apartment with another. On February 5, his genome sequencing results showed he contracted the B.1.1.7 variant. In its release last February 5, the local government said the Department of Health referred to the man who hails from Liloan, […]





