HEALTH experts allayed fears of a spread of the more infectious variant of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) after 16 new cases were reported in the northern part of the country.

This comes as Malacañang assured the public that the government has enough testing facilities to screen travelers arriving from countries with confirmed cases of the variant that was discovered in the United Kingdom called B117.

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