MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): The Department of Health (DOH) confirmed the country’s first two cases of the India variant of the Covid-19 virus on Tuesday (May 11), the same day that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the variant “a global concern.”
The WHO expressed concern that the B.1.617.2 variant, which first originated in India, is more transmissible, with mutations that easily allow the virus to get past the human body’s immune system.
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