Stricter border security mulled vs Delta variant

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte ordered the study of a plan to tighten border security and other measures that will prevent the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19).

Sen. Christopher Lawrence "Bong" Go, Duterte's trusted aide, disclosed that the President had called the meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force for the management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), health experts and economic managers in response to the Department of Health's (DoH) recent confirmation on the local transmission of the more contagious variant in the country.