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The P.3 variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) first found in the Philippines, has been named "Theta" by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) announced on Tuesday, June 1. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) On Monday, WHO announced that it will be using Greek...

The Department of Health (DOH) said it is eyeing to further strengthen the country’s genome sequencing capacity in order to detect more cases of coronavirus variants. Currently, only three institutions have the capacity to conduct genome sequencing. These are the Philippine Genome Center (PGC),...