New Covid strain discovered in QC

By Red Mendoza

Aug 18, 2020 12:20 am

A “more infectious” strain of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) virus was found in the samples tested by the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center (PGC) in Quezon City.

But health officials said this should not cause panic since this strain has not yet been detected in other parts of the country.

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