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+ April 08, 2021 DEPARTMENT of Health (DOH) 7 spokesperson Dr. Mary Jean Loreche and other Cebu officials cried foul over the naming of the P.3 variant as the Central Visayas variant in a publication material with an infographic that carried the logos of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) and the hashtags #workingPCOO and #LagingHandaPH, among others.
“The most amazing thing here is this they made it Central Visayas variant when, in fact, if you look at these variants of concern worlwide, when the UK variant came out in the open because they notice these rising cases in Kent, London, they never named it as a Kent of London variant. It bore the name of UK. The same for South African variant. Same for the Brazilian lineage. So why would they specifically target us just because 68 of this P.3 are coming from Central Visayas?” said Loreche. The University of the Philippines (UP) Philippine Genome Center (PGC) should have at least inform
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Contributed photo April 07, 2021 PRESIDENTIAL Assistant for the Visayas Michael Dino said he will write a letter to the Department of Health (DOH) central office and the Office of the President seeking to correct a pubmat that tagged the P.3 variant of Sars-CoV-2 as Central Visayas variant.
The pubmat, which was posted on social media and shared to reporters on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, contained the logo of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) and the hashtags #workingPCOO and #LagingHandaPH, among others.
As of Wednesday evening, however, it could no longer be found on the PCOO’s Facebook page.
P.3 is a Sars-CoV-2 variant under investigation that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). It was first detected by the University of the Philippines - Philippine Genome Center (PGC) on Feb. 4 in samples that mostly came from Central Visayas.