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Thailand braced for infections spike after detecting UK COVID-19 variant

Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat, Reuters
Posted at Apr 08 06:06 AM

Thailand has seen infections jump in the past week, although numbers are still low compared to some of its regional neighbors, such as the Philippines. Read more »

DOH logs more COVID-19 variant cases amid infection surge

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 21 12:22 AM

MANILA - The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday announced more cases of COVID-19 variants, including the P.3 that was first detected in the Philippines, and those that came from the United Kingdom and South Africa as the country's daily tally surged to record levels.   Read more »

Novavax COVID vaccine highly effective against severe disease: company

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 14 12:53 PM

US biotech firm Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be 100 percent protective against severe cases of the disease, including hospitalization and death, the company said Thursday following trials.   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 »

PH logs 52 more cases of S. African COVID-19 variant, 42 other mutations

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 05 05:16 PM

MANILA - The Philippines has recorded 52 more cases of the more transmissible South African COVID-19 variant and 42 additional virus patients with mutations of "potential clinical significance," Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Friday.    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 »

DOH traces contacts of MRT cluster-linked UK variant case

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 16 05:54 PM

Samples from contacts of a patient who contracted the UK variant case will soon undergo genome sequencing to check if these people also acquired the more transmissible COVID-19 variant, the Department of Health said Tuesday.  Read more »

UK COVID-19 variant case in PH linked to MRT cluster

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 15 11:48 PM

A Philippine case of the UK coronavirus variant is linked to a cluster of COVID-19 infections in the country's Metro Rail Transit.   Read more »

1 of newly confirmed UK variant cases linked to MRT COVID-19 cluster, says DOH

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 15 09:38 PM

MANILA (UPDATE) — One of the additional UK variant cases announced last week is from Metro Manila and is linked to the cluster of COVID-19 cases in the MRT, the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday. Read more »

Quezon City to conduct contact tracing after man tests positive for UK COVID-19 variant

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 11 11:24 PM

Philippine health authorities in Quezon City race to conduct contact tracing after a visitor tested positive for the UK coronavirus variant. Read more »

Reagents for genome sequencing of COVID-19 variants good for a month, more to arrive: DOH

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 08 07:28 PM

The Philippines has enough supplies to run COVID-19 samples through genome sequencing for a month, the Department of Health said Monday. Read more »

Philippines logs first death among UK COVID-19 variant cases

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 08 12:41 PM

The Philippines has recorded its first fatality due to the more transmissible COVID-19 variant, the health department said Monday.   Read more »

UK begins door-to-door testing of 80,000 people as new COVID-19 variants spread

Reuters
Posted at Feb 02 04:14 PM

Britain begins door-to-door COVID-19 testing of 80,000 people on Tuesday in a bid to stem the spread of a new highly infectious so called South African variant of the novel coronavirus. Read more »

Vietnam confirms latest virus outbreak includes more contagious UK variant

Phuong Nguyen, Reuters
Posted at Feb 02 02:46 PM

Vietnam's health minister said Tuesday a newly detected coronavirus outbreak, which has infected 276 people and spread to 10 provinces and cities, is caused by the more contagious British variant of the coronavirus. Read more »

DOH: Mahalagang mapaigting ang pagsusuri sa COVID-19 samples

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 01 08:25 PM

Ayon din sa Department of Health, importanteng mapaigting ang pagsusuri sa COVID-19 samples sa bansa.  Read more »

‘Case closed,’ says DOH of Filipina in HK with UK COVID-19 variant

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 29 12:38 PM

MANILA — With all of her contacts in the Philippines already tested and found negative of the more transmissible COVID-19 variant, the case of the Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong who had contracted the virus' UK strain has been deemed “case closed,” the Department of Health said Friday. Read more »

DOH looking into 8 returning Pinoys for possible source of new COVID variant in Bontoc

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 27 01:06 PM

The Department of Health (DOH) on Wednesday said it is looking at 8 overseas Filipino who returned to the Cordillera Administrative Region, to find the source of the new COVID-19 variant that spread in Bontoc, Mountain Province.  Read more »

DOH: Restricting 10- to 14-year-olds to give gov’t time to know extent of UK variant spread

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 26 06:54 PM

Currently, there are 17 UK-variant cases in the Philippines, although it is unclear how some of them were infected. Read more »

DOH confirms local, not community transmission, of UK COVID-19 variant in Bontoc

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 25 11:42 PM

MANILA — The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday evening confirmed local transmission of the new and more transmissible COVID-19 variant in Bontoc, Mountain Province. Read more »

UK detects 77 cases of South African COVID variant, 9 of Brazilian

Reuters
Posted at Jan 24 08:17 PM

Britain has detected 77 cases of the South African variant of COVID-19, the health minister said on Sunday, also urging people to strictly follow lockdown rules as the best precaution against Britain's own potentially more deadly variant. Read more »