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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.