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The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) confirmed the detection of the first case of B.1.1.7. SARS-CoV-2 (UK) variant in the country.
The DOH announced that the Philippine Genome Center confirmed the detection of the UK variant in the Philippines after samples from a Filipino who returned home from the United Arab Emirates on Jan. 7 yielded positive genome sequencing results.
The male patient with the new strain of Covid-19 is a resident of Quezon City who flew to Dubai on Dec. 27 for business purposes and arrived in the Philippines on Jan. 7 via Emirates Flight No. EK 332.
The patient was with his partner who tested negative for Covid-19 upon arrival.