MANILA — The Department of Health on Friday said Filipinos should not believe a circulating message claiming that a new strain of the COVID-19 virus is making younger adults sick.
“There is no new strain of the virus here in the Philippines. It is very dangerous and irresponsible to say we have a different strain,” Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said during a virtual briefing.
“It is true we have seen an increase in the number of cases due to the gradual opening of our economy but we know that increased economic activities entail increased mobility among our population which of course in turn increases the chances of being infected,” Vergeire said. Instead, she explained that more of those infected are those in the working age group “because they are usually the ones going out of houses to go to work and do errands.
On the claim of the circulating message that COVID wards are full, Vergeire said, “we have seen a decrease in the utilization.”
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