A nurse prepares to administer the Sinovac COVID19 vaccine during a ceremonial vaccination program … [+] held inside a sports stadium in Marikina City, east of Manila, Philippines on 02 March 2021. According to the city health office, only 250 healthcare workers showed up to get inoculated with the Chinese brand, as compared to the 1,200 who initially signed up expecting either Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines from the World Health Organization. (Photo by George Calvelo/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Covid-19 has reached extraordinarily high levels in the Philippines. In early January, the country reported around 1,500 cases per day. Today, that rate is over 10,000, as seen below in figure 1. This resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 is coincident with the observation of a new Philippine variant: B.1.1.28.3. First identified in the Central Visayas region of the island nation, the variant is derived from the Brazilian B.1.1.28 strain and shares many mutations with the P.1 variant iden… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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Third Generation Covid-19 Variant Described In The Philippines
