DOH asks NBI help in tracing 2 unlocated contacts of UK variant patient

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The DOH is seeking the assistance of the NBI to find the two still unlocated co-passengers of the Filipino infected with the UK Covid-19 variant. | DJEsguerraINQ

Vergeire added they will now forward the names of the two remaining passengers to NBI.

“We have coordinated with the Department of Justice and we will be providing these two names to the NBI through the Department of Justice today,” she said. The DOH official bared that the two untraced passengers provided insufficient contact details and addresses in their flight manifest which gave contact tracing teams hard time in locating them., have tested positive for the virus that causes Covid-19. Their specimens are now with the Philippine Genome Center to find out whether they also have the UK variant, which is believed to be more infectious.

 

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