Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the DOH is getting some help from contact tracing czar and Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong in locating the passengers who were on the same flight as the patient.
“Mayor Magalong is now helping us in expanding the contact tracing… We could not contact them in the addresses and contact numbers that they provided,” she noted at a press briefing.
Interior spokesman Jonathan Malaya said the government has 255,854 contact tracers nationwide, emphasizing that re-hiring only 15,000 will not weaken the capacity to do the job.
He added that the re-hiring would augment the current number to meet the standards set by the DOH.
The 29-year-old real estate agent had traveled to Dubai on a business trip with his partner. Upon their return to the Philippines via Emirates Flight 332 last Jan. 7, they went through swab testing for COVID-19. The results showed him positive for B.1.17 SARSCoV-2, the new UK variant of COVID-19. His partner had a negative result.
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