Intellasia East Asia News The Department of Health (DOH) yesterday reported the detection of additional variant cases in samples from COVID-positive patients. DOH said an additional 266 B117 variant cases, 351 B.1.351 variant cases, and 25 P.3 variant cases were found by the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center (UP-PGC), and the University of the […]

Intellasia East Asia News Confirmed COVID-19 cases nationwide rose to 936,133 as the Department of Health (DOH) logged an additional 10,098 cases yesterday. The DOH also recorded a high of 72,607 recoveries, pushing the number of those who recuperated from the illness to 779,084 or 83.2 percent of the total cases. Active cases are pegged […]

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