ROOMS FULL In this photo taken on March 15, St. Luke's Medical Center in Quezon City informs patients that it cannot accommodate COVID-19 patients as the hospital has reached capacity for such cases. —NIÑO JESUS ORBETA MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday said two highly contagious variants of the coronavirus had been detected in all cities in Metro Manila and these may be driving the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases in the metropolis in the past few weeks. The DOH said it was waiting for confirmation from the World Health Organization (WHO) of widespread community transmission of the B.1.1.7 variant first detected in the United Kingdom and the B.1.351 variant first reported by South Africa late last year. But WHO representative to the Philippines Rabindra Abeyasinghe, speaking in a televised briefing on Monday, did not attribute the flare-up solely to the variants but to also to vaccine optimism that had led to people letting their guard down. Global increase in cases Abeyasinghe said the WHO had been seeing a global increase in COVID-19 cases in the past four weeks. "After a stabilization of transmission in January and early February, we have seen now that globally, in… Read full this story
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