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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 23) Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Wednesday said the new variant of COVID-19 found in the United Kingdom feared to be more rapidly transmissible has not yet reached the Philippines. He stressed, however, that this is based on the samples collected in the country in September and October.
Researchers from the Philippine Genome Center on Tuesday reported that it analyzed 65 samples from populous Metro Manila and “found practically no overlapping spike protein mutations” between the new SARS-COV-2 variant found in England and the mutated COVID-19 strain found in the Philippines in June. It said that data suggested that the D614G variant of the virus that is prevalent in the Philippines is “not closely related with the UK variant.”
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Opinion: Learning from the Taiwan Model [Philippine Daily Inquirer, Manila / Asia News Network]
Dec. 22 Taiwan’s trailblazing digital minister, Audrey Tang, was the main speaker at the “Kaya Pala! (It Can Be Done)” forum the other week, which focused on lessons from Taiwan’s evident success in containing both the coronavirus pandemic and the disinformation phenomenon, the so-called infodemic. (It was my happy task to serve as forum moderator.)Tang offered a close-up view of Taiwan’s “three pillars in social innovation,” which she summarized as the 3 Fs: Fast, Fair, Fun.
She started with the by now well-known fact that Taiwan responded immediately to the first public report of a SARS-like illness, posted by the Chinese whistleblower Li Wenliang (who later succumbed to the new disease) on Dec. 30, 2019. It was shared on Taiwan’s PTT platform the next day, where different people, experts and laymen alike, “triaged the message,” Tang said, to confirm that “it’s