MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): The new coronavirus variant — first detected in the United Kingdom and believed to be more contagious — has yet to be detected in the Philippines based on the result of a genome sequencing study by experts, the Department of Health (DOH) said Wednesday (Jan 6).
In a statement, the DOH cited the result of the study of the Philippine Genome Center (PGC), which conducted a genome sequencing on samples of passengers from countries with reported cases of the new variant, as well as samples from coronavirus patients in the Philippines infected in November and December.