THERE is now a community transmission of the highly-infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), according to the head of the Philippine Genome Center (PGC).

Dr. Cynthia Saloma said their analysis was based on the examination of the "phylogenetic tree" or the diagram of infections based on the samples that they have sequenced in the past few months.

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