February 22, 2021 DAVAO City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said there is a need to intensify Davao City’s sending of specimen samples to Manila for genomic sequencing as part of the city s improved biosurveillance against the new Covid-19 variant.
This is on the heels of the city s first confirmed B.1.1.7 variant of Sars-CoV-2 case.
On Friday, February 12, 2021, the Department of Health (DOH) reported that a 10-year-old male, a 54-year-old female and a 33-year-old male, with indicated addresses in Davao Region, tested positive for the B.1.1.7 variant, also known as the UK variant. The three have no known link to each other.
The Provincial Government of Davao de Oro confirmed that the 54-year-old female and 33-year-old male were from their province, while City Health Office Acting Head Dr. Ashley Lopez confirmed in a radio interview that the 10-year-old male was from Davao City.
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ML Kwarta Padala to Account, or KP2A, is currently available for Metrobank, Chinabank and BPI accounts, but other banks will soon follow.
Isis bride grew up in Australia - now they re sending her to New Zealand
16 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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The imminent deportation of an Isis-linked 26-year-old woman has sparked fresh transtasman tension after it emerged she left New Zealand aged 6 and grew up in Australia, where her citizenship has been cancelled.
New Zealand is the only option for the deportation of Suhayra Aden, who is being detained in Turkey with her two children after crossing the border from Syria and the ruins of the would-be Isis caliphate.
The case has brought quick parallels with Australia s ejection to New Zealand of criminals born here but who grew up there.