MANILA, Philippines — Additional reagents needed in conducting genome sequencing to detect new coronavirus variants have already arrived in the country and are pending release from the Bureau of Customs (BOC), the Department of Health (DOH) said Monday.
“The procurements [for reagents] are here already. We are just having them out from Customs. The reagents came last night,” Health undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in an online press briefing.
According to Vergeire, the Philippine Genome Center (PCG) can normally process about 750 samples for genome sequencing a week but this was lowered to only 48 samples following a delay in supply last week.
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