A mother and her children wait for a general check-up behind a makeshift plastic barrier for protection against the coronavirus at a local health centre in Manila, Philippines,on Jan 26, 2021.- Reuters
MANILA (Reuters): The Philippines has 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 on Tuesday (Jan 26).
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