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(Eagle News) — The Philippines has reported additional COVID-19 variant cases. In a statement, the Department of Health said 12 more local cases of the highly contagious Delta variant, 187 more Alpha variant cases, 142 additional Beta variant cases, and 12 more P.3 variant cases were detected in the latest genome sequencing. The DOH said the additional 12 local Delta variant cases pushed the total in the country to 47. Of the additional 12, three […]
PHL Genome Center stresses need to prevent spread of P.3 variant to other regions, other countries (Eagle News) – The coronavirus variant P.3, which was first detected in the Philippines was the SARS-CoV2 mutation that was first observed in the Central Visayas region where there had been an observed spike in cases since January this year, according to the Philippine Genome Center (PGC). The PGC said that most of the nearly 100 samples where […]
More COVID-19 cases with UK and South African variants also detected (Eagle News) — The Department of Health (DOH) confirmed Saturday, March 13, a new variant of the coronavirus called P.3 which was first found in the Philippines, as it also detected the first case of the Brazilian variant in the country. Because of this, all three highly infectious variants – the UK variant (B.1.1.7), the South African variant (B.1.351 variant) and the Brazilian […]
