DAVAO CITY: The Department of Health (DoH) has confirmed three more cases of poliovirus from Mindanao, bringing the total of new cases this year in the country to seven.

Samples from the three new cases that were sent to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine in Muntinlupa City and the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Japan came out positive for poliovirus.

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