South African variant

DOH: Increase in COVID-19 variant cases detected in PHL due to “increased genomic biosurveillance activities”

(Eagle News) -- The Department of Health on Thursday acknowledged that there was an increase in the number of COVID-19…

S. African Covid variant better at bypassing Pfizer/BioNTech jab: Israeli study

  JERUSALEM (AFP) -- The South African coronavirus variant is better at "breaking through" the defences of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine…

WHO country Rep. says “vaccine optimism”, presence of COVID variants, among reasons for spike in PHL cases

Vaccine arrival has led public complacency in observing health protocols - WHO https://youtu.be/Y_zIWHW8VMc     (Eagle News) -- "Vaccine optimism"…

DOH: 7 cities in Metro Manila found to have both UK and South African variants

UK variant detected in 11 cities in NCR; South African variant found in 7 cities   (Eagle News) – The…

PHL COVID-19 tally reaches 587,704 with addition of 3,045 COVID-19 cases

The additional COVID-19 cases the highest count so far in 2021 (Eagle News) -- The Philippines on Friday, March 5,…

PHL detects 52 more S. African COVID-19 variant cases; DOH says of the figure, 41 came from M. Manila

31 additional UK variant cases also detected (Eagle News) -- The government has detected 52 more South African variant cases…

DOH finds 6 cases of South African variant, 30 add’l UK variant cases

  (Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) said that six cases of the South African variant or B.1.351,…

British virus variant now in 50 countries, while South African strain found in 20 countries: WHO

by Robin MILLARD Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The coronavirus mutation first found in Britain has now spread…

DOH, PGC say UK and South African COVID-19 variants not yet detected in PHL

https://youtu.be/-BholJnjOWg (Eagle News) – The Department of Health (DOH) and the Philippine Genome Center stressed that they have not detected…

PHL on lookout for 3 other COVID strains: the UK, South African and Malaysian variants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyqXXnLZE_g   (Eagle News) -- The Philippines is not just on the lookout for the highly infectious B.1.1.7 variant of…

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