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From 750 samples per week, PGC limited to testing only 48 samples last week (Eagle News) — The Department of Health said that the global shortage of reagents for genome sequencing has affected the country’s ability to do genome sequencing on COVID-19 samples in the country for testing on the UK variant B.1.1.7 and the South African variant of the COVID-19 virus, SARS-CoV2. The DOH said that due to this deficiency, the Philippine Genome […]
Swab samples taken: 53 test negative; 1 test positive; 23 more awaiting results (Eagle News) – At least 77 travelers from the United Kingdom were able to enter the country before the Philippines imposed a travel ban of UK flights on December 24 after news of a highly infectious virus variant, B.1.1.7, that was first detected in Britain. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said that the Department of Health is now closely monitoring these […]
But UK variant not yet observed in present COVID virus samples in PHL, says PGC (Eagle News) – Philippine scientists are monitoring and checking if the reported virus strain in the United Kingdom, variant B.1.1.7, — said to be more infectious than previous COVID-19 mutations — has already reached the country. The scientists at the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) are tracing if the current variants of the COVID-19 virus include that of the UK […]
