Philippines ‘intently’ monitoring new Coronavirus strain in South Africa

The Philippine government is monitoring the new Coronavirus Variant b.1.1.529 that already has cases in South Africa, acting presidential spokesperson and cabinet secretary Karlo Nograles said. During the palace briefing, Nograles said members of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the management of emerging infectious diseases (IATF-EID) and the Department Of Health (DOH) are widely aware of the variant described by experts as “heavily mutated”.
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