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“Sa ngayon, meron na tayong tatlong variant na binabantayan. Ito yung sa UK na type na variant, South Africa na variant, and then there was this identified variant din sa Malaysia. Ito yung tatlo na atin na pong binabantayan [Right now, we are monitoring three variants. This is the UK type variant, South Africa variant, and then there was this identified variant also in Malaysia. These are the three (variants) that we are currently monitoring],” said DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire in a press briefing on Friday.
The UK and the South African variants of the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, were not detected in the 305 samples that were recently analyzed by the Philippine Genome Center (PGC).