EOC warns Cebuanos of ‘superspreaders’ ahead of holiday season

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CEBU CITY, Philippines -- Local officials in Cebu City have reiterated their reminders to the public not to let their guard down just yet against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) now that

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This as they discovered that most of the new confirmed cases of the infection has happened to be asymptomatics or infected individuals showing no symptoms of the disease., reported that around 83 percent of the recent confirmed COVID-19 cases in Cebu City in November were asymptomatic. “These people can potentially be sources of ‘superspreader outbreaks’ since they are the ones who are mobile and in the active workforce,” he said.

“In October, there were only 6 percent asymptomatics and 33 percent symptomatic cases while in November, we have 83 percent aymptomatics and 17 percent symptomatics,” he said.

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