Covid FLiRT variants likely here

Covid FLiRT variants likely here – DoH

By Red Mendoza

May 30, 2024 12:23 am

THE highly transmissible Covid-19 subvariants called FLiRT could have entered the country, the Department of Health (DoH) said.

In a statement, Department of Health spokesman and acting Assistant Secretary Albert Francis Domingo said the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center and Research Institute for Tropical Medicine were doing sequencing efforts to determine the presence of such variants.

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