DOH says COVID-19 variant in PH 'a question of when'

The Department of Health is still not ruling out the possibility that a more infectious strain of the novel coronavirus is already in the country.

That's after a Filipino who arrived in Hong Kong from Manila tested positive for the new variant.

But Philippine health authorities said it's difficult to determine where the traveler may have caught the virus. - The World Tonight, ANC, January 7, 2021