VCO versus COVID-19
Last week, the Philippines’ coronavirus scoreboard hit the half-million mark. Based on the latest tally from the Department of Health (DOH), the number of confirmed cases has reached 500,577 with more than 24,000 still active, almost 466,000 recoveries, and nearly 10,000 deaths. The DOH and the Philippine Genome Center also confirmed that the United Kingdom (UK) variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 is now in the country after samples from a Filipino who arrived from Dubai two weeks ago yielded positive genome sequencing results. This UK variant is reportedly even more infect...
Source: mb.com.ph