THE University of the Philippines - Philippine Genome Center (UP-PGC) debunked a viral post on social media that the new P.3 coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) variant was "extremely contagious" and that there were confirmed cases as early as the second quarter of 2020.

Citing a "Covid-19 briefing" from the sixth district of Quezon City, the post also said that "more than 60 percent of cases of the variant came from subdivisions and condominiums".

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