The pandemic and the presence of variants of the new coronavirus has thrust a little-known agency into the limelight: the Philippine Genome Center (PGC).

The PGC has been tasked to do genomic sequencing, an essential job in the country's fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, since last year when variants of concern reared their heads.

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