endIndex: The Philippines recorded nearly 200 new cases of the highly contagious COVID-19 variant first detected in South Africa, as well as 190 cases from the other variants present in the country, the Department of Health announced on Saturday. (FILE PHOTO)
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 10) The Philippines recorded nearly 200 new cases of the highly contagious COVID-19 variant first detected in South Africa, as well as 190 cases from the other variants present in the country, the Department of Health announced on Saturday.
The DOH said of the 192 cases of the B.1.351 variant from South Africa, one of them is a returning overseas Filipino, 143 are local cases, while 48 are still under verification on whether they are local or from abroad. Three of the infected patients have died, two are active or currently battling the disease, and 187 have recovered.
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The Department of Health, with the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center and the University of the Philippines-National Institutes of Health, on Saturday confirmed that one case of COVID-19 had the P.1 variant which was first detected in Brazil, in a returning overseas Filipino from Western Visayas. It also said the UK variant was found in 59 new COVID-19 cases while the South Africa variant was found in 32 additional cases. The.
By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News
Published March 10, 2021 6:00pm Two experts on Wednesday clarified that a coronavirus lineage is different from a variant after confusion followed the announcement of the Quezon City government that the more transmissible Brazil variant had been detected in the country. The Quezon City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit later on retracted the pronouncement regarding the Brazil variant. Dr. Eva Cutiongco-dela Paz of the University of the Philippines National Institutes of Health explained that viruses have subtypes that can be put into larger groupings called “lineages.” Variants, meanwhile, are “groups of viruses that share the same set of distinctive or signature mutations.”
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 3) The government wants to expand the country s capacity to do genome sequencing, which is the second test needed to identify which type of variant has infected a coronavirus-positive individual. Ngayon po, Philippine Genome Center lang po nagsasagawa ng sequencing natin. At gusto po natin na mai-expand ang kakayahan na ito para mas bumilis at mas marami po tayong ma-sequence na mga kababayan nating nagtu-turn positive, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a briefing.
[Translation: At present, only the Philippine Genome Center is conducting our sequencing. And we want to expand that capacity, so we can quickly sequence the samples of our fellow Filipinos who turn out positive for COVID-19.]