Published April 7, 2021, 9:26 PM
CEBU CITY – Local officials here cried foul over the supposed renaming of the P.3 variant of SARS-CoV-2 from “Philippine variant” to “Central Visayas Variant (CVV).”
NAMING NAMES. A screenshot of an infographic said to be released by the Philippine Genome Center to media bears a COVID-19 variant named as Central Visayas Variant, which was previously known as Philippine Variant. The screenshot was posted by DOH 7 spokesperson Dt. Mary Jean Loreche on the Visayas media viber group.
Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, chief pathologist and spokesperson of the Department of Health-Central Visayas (DOH 7), said they received reports that the “Philippine variant” was renamed to “Central Visayas variant” in publication materials from the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO).