First 2 COVID-19 India variant cases in PH confirmed

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DOH confirmed the country’s first two cases of the India variant of the COVID-19 virus on Tuesday, the same day that the WHO declared the variant “a global concern.” | LeilasINQ maricarcincoINQ PDMChiuINQ

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The first case is a 37-year-old male returning overseas Filipino from Oman who arrived in the Philippines on April 10 and was tested on April 15, said Dr. Alethea de Guzman, director of the DOH’s Epidemiology Bureau.

The DOH was also verifying if all passengers potentially exposed to the two patients were able to complete their mandatory quarantine period of 14 days, she said.Also on Tuesday, the DOH logged 4,734 new cases, the lowest since March 17 when the country recorded 4,387 new cases. But the health agency said the relatively low count could be due to the failure of 12 laboratories to submit their data on time.The latest figure brought the country’s total case count to 1,113,547.

The government showed “no vision of the future, no sense of urgency,” when it failed to ban foreign travelers sooner just like it last year, Leachon said Tuesday, referring to the belated ban on incoming travelers from Wuhan, China, where the first case of COVID-19 was reported. One tested positive for a lineage which is not a variant of concern or a variant of investigation, while the fifth sample is still up for sequencing.

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