PRC to conduct volume testing for new COVID variant
(JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of Health (DOH) and the Philippine Genome Center confirmed that the B.1.17. SARS-CoV-2 variant was detected in a Filipino male who traveled to Dubai on December 27, 2020 and arrived in the Philippines last January 7 aboard Emirates Flight No. EK 332. PRC Chairman and CEO Senator Richard Gordon said that it will do contact tracing on all passengers of EK 332 that arrived in the country on January 7 for the new COVID variant. “The identified individual and his girlfriend didn’t show symptoms and only the former tested positive,...
Source: mb.com.ph