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Omicron justifies mandatory vaccination: Concepcion

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Updated as of Dec 01 04:03 PM

COVID-19's Omicron variant makes the mandatory vaccination "urgent and justifiable," presidential adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion said. Read more »

Denmark incinerates 4 million mink culled to curb COVID-19 mutations

Tim Barsoe, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 29 07:29 AM

COPENHAGEN - Denmark this week began incinerating 4 million mink that had been culled to curb COVID-19 mutations but began to resurface from mass burial sites, prompting renewed health concerns. Read more »

Indonesia reports coronavirus case with ‘Eek’ mutation

Reuters
Posted at Apr 07 04:00 AM

The new variant contains the E484K mutation found in variants first identified in South Africa and Brazil.   Read more »

B.1.1.7 COVID variant at mutations kinumpirma sa Caraga Region

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 19 10:20 PM

Ang nakumpirmang B.1.1.7 variant na sample ay galing sa isang returning overseas Filipino na taga Bislig City, Surigao del Sur. Read more »

COVID-19 variant na nadiskubre sa Pilipinas mas nakahahawa ba?

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 15 09:56 PM

Ayon sa Philippine Genome Center, natural lang para sa isang virus na mag-mutate at hindi laging pinalala ng mutation ang bagsik ng isang virus. Read more »

ALAMIN: Ano ang mga COVID-19 mutation at gaano sila kadelikado?

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 11 05:25 PM

Malaki ang pangamba ngayon ng mga Pilipino sa kumakalat na mga variant ng COVID-19. Sinasabi kasing mas nakahahawa ang mga ito at ang ilan naman ay nababawasan ang pagka-epektibo ng mga bakuna. Read more »

DOH di nababahala sa pagtaas ng kaso ng UK COVID-19 variant sa bansa

Joyce Balancio, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 22 09:17 PM

Hind nababahala ang Department of Health sa pagtaas ng kaso ng UK COVID-19 variant sa Pilipinas, ayon kay Health Secretary Francisco Duque III ngayong Lunes.  Read more »

Ilang Cebu LGUs ibinalik ang curfew, liquor ban sa pagtaas ng COVID-19 cases

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Updated as of Feb 23 02:03 AM

Ibinalik ng ilang lokal na pamahalaan sa Cebu ang pagpapatupad ng curfew at liquor ban bilang pagpigil sa pagkalat ng COVID-19.  Read more »

PH detects 18 more UK COVID-19 variant cases, 3 more cases of mutations

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Updated as of Feb 22 11:12 AM

The Philippines has detected 18 more patients with the more contagious COVID-19 variant first found in the United Kingdom, and an additional 3 cases of coronavirus mutation, the Department of Health said Sunday. Read more »

2 COVID-19 'mutations' na nakita sa Cebu binabantayan ng DOH

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 18 08:39 PM

Binabantayan ng DOH sa Central Visayas ang dalawang sinasabing mutations na nakita sa mga COVID-19 sample mula Cebu. Read more »

Duque: Pfizer, AstraZeneca jabs appear to be effective vs UK COVID variant

Vivienne Gulla, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 04 07:10 AM

MANILA - The vaccines of drugmakers Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca appear to be effective against the UK variant of COVID-19, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Wednesday. Read more »

More samples needed to check presence of COVID-19 variant in PH: DOST

Pia Gutierrez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 09 12:32 AM

MANILA - Philippine experts would need more samples from COVID-19 patients to check whether the mutated variant of the virus has already entered the country, the Department of Science and Technology said Friday. Read more »

New variant may increase Philippines' COVID cases 15-fold, says gov’t adviser

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 06 05:18 PM

A public health research group on Wednesday warned that if the new COVID-19 variant enters the Philippines, it may result in much higher number of cases and deaths. Read more »

Philippines closes borders to UK due to mutated coronavirus strain

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 23 11:47 PM

The Philippines joins a growing list of countries which have banned the entry of travelers from the UK where a more infectious strain of the COVID-19 virus has been detected.   Read more »

Gene sequencing of COVID-19 samples in PH show different ‘lineages’ from China, other countries

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 19 04:26 PM

MANILA — The Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) on Wednesday said that its initial study of samples of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, showed that that there are different “lineages” of the virus currently spreading in the country. Read more »

Mas nakahahawang strain ng coronavirus na-detect sa QC: genome center

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 17 05:29 PM

Nilinaw naman ng genome center na dahil nakuha lang ang mga sample sa isang lungsod, hindi nito maaaring katawanin ang mutational landscape sa buong bansa.     Read more »

Almost a third of COVID-19 samples show mutation, but not worse disease: WHO

Stephanie Nebehay and Michael Shields, Reuters
Posted at Jul 04 03:43 AM

Almost 30 percent of genome sequencing data from samples of the COVID-19 virus collected by the World Health Organization (WHO) have shown signs of mutation, but there is no evidence this has led to more severe disease, a top WHO official said on Friday. Read more »

Mutation in new coronavirus increases chance of infection: study

Reuters
Posted at Jun 16 04:14 AM

The mutation, named D614G, increased the number of "spikes" on the coronavirus - which is the part that gives it its distinctive shape. Those spikes are what allow the virus to bind to and infect cells. Read more »