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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 25) – President Rodrigo Duterte is calling for a meeting with pandemic response officials to discuss the new strain of coronavirus detected in the UK, which previously caused the temporary suspension of flights from the UK.
In a message to reporters on Friday, Senator Christopher Bong Go said Duterte will return to Malacañang on Saturday to meet with the Interagency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, the body charged with formulating policy in the government’s response to the COVID-19. .
Go said the president will “shorten” his vacation after spending Christmas in Davao city.
The mutated strain, which is said to be a more infectious variant, was first detected in the UK last week, forcing its government to impose the strictest Level 4 lockdown on London and south-east England in a situation that the country’s health chief described as “out of control.” “
READ: What does this new strain of coronavirus mean to you?
On Monday, the Health Department said that while a new variant of the dreaded virus has not yet been found in the Philippines, it will intensify its monitoring efforts to prepare the country against the new strain.
Two days later, the Philippine government temporarily banned all flights from the UK from December 24 to December 31. Other countries in Europe, Asia, South America, the Caribbean and the Middle East have also closed their borders.
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