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The government should tap more laboratories in order to boost the country’s efforts in detecting new variants of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an infectious disease expert said Monday, May 17. (JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Dr. Rontgene Solante, the head of San Lazaro Hospital's...

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),...

Viral genome sequencing may provide clues as to why different people respond very differently to infection, which could be important for more accurate identification and protection of those at greatest risk of severe disease CLINICAL MATTERS By Edsel Maurice T. Salvana, MD, DTM&H, FPCP, FIDSA...