The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided to remove the COVID-19 variant first detected in the Philippines, known as the “Theta” or P.3 variant, from the list of ‘variants of interests’. Philippine Genome Center official Dr. Eva Cutiongco-Dela Paz said that WHO downgraded the Theta variant as “alerts for further monitoring.” RELATED STORY: PH to …

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