Cases of British virus variant confirmed


Authorities have confirmed domestic transmission of the new, highly contagious British variant of the coronavirus, prompting President Rodrigo Duterte to abandon a plan to allow some minors to go outside their homes.

“Right now, we have local transmission where this individual or these cases with the variant have already infected their community, their family, ” Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire told news channel ANC yesterday.

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