Health Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd said that the South African variant is now the most dominant Covid-19 variant in the Philippines based on the results of recent genome sequencing.

As of May 2, experts have detected 1,075 cases of the B.1.351 variant first detected in South Africa.

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