There is now a community transmission of the UK and South Africa variants of the COVID-19 virus in the National Capital Region Plus bubble, the top World Health Organization official in the Philippines has said.
Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe, the WHO representative in the country, said that there was reason to believe that there was community transmission of the two variants of concern in the NCR Plus based on evidence and the number of cases.
“In some locations of the Philippines, we will have to accept that there is community level transmission of these variants, the B117 and B1351,” Abeyasinghe told GMA News.