ZAMBOANGA CITY, Zamboanga del Sur—The City Health Office here confirmed to have detected 51 cases of the South African variant of SARS-CoV2 virus among the samples earlier sent for genome sequencing from the city.
Dr. Dulce Miravite, the city health officer, said that of the 257 samples sent by Department of Health to the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) on May 25, 52 were found to be cases of variants of concern, of which 51 were cases of South African variant and one a Philippine variant.
“Of the 257 samples for genome sequencing, one case was of a Philippine variant, while the rest were South African ones,” the Zamboanga city government said in a statemen…
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