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Experts explain: What are coronavirus lineages and variants?


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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Foreign diplomats, dignitaries exempted from entry restrictions — IATF – Manila Bulletin


Published January 6, 2021, 11:04 AM
Foreign diplomats and dignitaries will be exempted from entry restrictions imposed on travelers from countries with the new coronavirus variant based on the latest decision of the government pandemic task force.
A security officer (L) walks past empty check-in counters at the airport in Manila on August 4, 2020 (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP / MANILA BULLETIN)
These foreign visitors, however, must still undergo testing and quarantine protocols upon arrival in the country, according to Resolution No. 92 issued by Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF).
The government had earlier prohibited the entry of all foreign travelers coming from 21 countries/jurisdictions affected by the new COVID-19 strain until Jan. 15. ....

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IATF forms panel of experts to monitor coronavirus variants


IATF forms panel of experts to monitor coronavirus variants
By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News
Published January 6, 2021 11:05am
Updated January 6, 2021 11:14am
The Philippines’ COVID-19 task force has created a panel of experts that will monitor and identify the occurrence of new coronavirus variants in the country.
Headed by Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, the technical working group is also mandated to provide policy recommendations to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) on the appropriate response regarding these variants.
The other members of the panel are the following:
Executive Director Jaime Montoya of the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (co-chairperson) ....

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