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Pres. Duterte directs creation of Task Force of medical experts to study infectious UK virus variant

December 27, 2020

Task Force to lead efforts to determine if variant B.1.1.7 has already entered PHL (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte directed the creation of another Task Force, this time, composed of medical experts and scientists directed at studying the new emerging COVID-19 virus strains or variants that are said to be more infectious than before. In his meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) Saturday night, Dec. 26, Duterte observed […]

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Mutated SARS-CoV-2 strain detected in QC

August 17, 2020

Study says mutation can increase viral rate of transmission but “no definitive evidence” carriers are more infectious than others yet (Eagle News)–A mutated strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID19 has been found in Quezon City. The Philippine Genome Center, which conducted a whole genome and targeted sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the country as part of the validation study of the locally developed SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR kit, said in its first advisory that […]

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