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Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano assured the public that the city government has mobilized all its health workers and law enforcers to stop the spread of the South African variant of COVID-19 following reports that at least three city residents have contracted the new strain. Pasay City Mayor...

The OCTA Research Team sees the new COVID variants as the reason for the spike in cases in Metro Manila and several parts of the country. (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN) OCTA Research fellow Dr. Guido David said his group saw a rapid increase in Metro Manila’s reproduction rate (R0) which is...

The Pasay City government has started conducting a thorough contact tracing of 42 to 45 individuals who were exposed to the new South African variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Pasay Travel Pass Facebook page / MANILA BULLETIN) (Pasay Travel Pass Facebook page / MANILA BULLETIN) Mayor...

SAO PAULO -- The coronavirus variant detected in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas is twice as contagious and capable of re-infecting those who already had COVID-19, according to a scientific study released on Tuesday. A woman wears a face mask amid covid-19 outbreak in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on...

PARISㅡThe emergence in Britain and South Africa of two new variants of Sars-CoV-2, which are potentially far more infectious versions of the virus, has prompted widespread concern. Here is what we know一and what we don’tㅡabout the mutations. What are they? All viruses mutate when they...