DOH 11 bared a new case of Covid-19 Delta variant from Davao City has been detected.
The regional office of the Department of Health (DOH 11) announced over the weekend that an additional Covid-19 variants has been detected in Davao City involving a 33-year old male patient from Davao City.
The patient was swabbed and tested positive at Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC)- Molecular Biology Laboratory last July 5, 2021. He was discharged last July 17, 2021 and on July 19, 2021, he was then swabbed and tested negative.
The patient was already tagged as recovered.
Based on the announcement of DOH-Davao the case was detected from batch 29 specimens from Davao Region as reported by University of the Philippines – Philippine Genome Center Whole Genome Sequencing (UP-PGC-WGS).
To date there are already five cases of Delta variants reported in Davao City. All were tagged recovered.
It can be recalled that DOH 11 reported two Delta variant cases in Davao Region last week and these were Returning Overseas Filipinos (ROFs) workers from Saudi Arabia and Zambia, Africa.
On August 3, 2021, DOH-Davao reported four Delta variants detected in Davao Region: three in Davao City and one in Tagum City.
On August 6, 2021, DOH-Davao announced an additional two Delta variant cases and these were local cases upon initial investigation. One local case was tagged in Davao City while the other was tagged in Davao del Sur.
Based on the report of DOH 11 presently, there are a total of nine Delta variant cases reported in Davao Region. The DOH-Davao Center for Health Development has submitted a total of 2,506 specimens for WGS at UP-PGC.
The DOH strongly encouraged the public to get vaccinated as vaccines provide protection from severe infection caused by any variants and prevent hospitalization.
