The more infectious COVID-19 variation originally recognized in South Africa has arrived in the Philippines, the Department of Health shared this with the public. The Philippine Genome Center identified six instances of B.1.351, or the variation that was first found in South Africa in December a year ago, when it directed genome sequencing of tests from 350 people who tried …

The health authorities in the Philippines announced that they had confirmed 16 more cases of a new strain of coronavirus that is thought to be more contagious, with two cases of local transmission. In view of this, the Department of Health reported that the two patients with the B117 variant from La Trinidad, Benguet and Calamba City, Laguna, had no …