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MANILA - The Department of Health (DOH) has detected 613 new cases of the highly-transmissible Omicron subvariants. In its latest Covid-19 biosurveillance report, the agency noted that there were 694 samples sequenced by the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center on Jan. 28. Out of the total samples, 252 or 36.31 percent were classified as BA.2.3.20; 201 or 28.96 percent as XBB; 25 or 3.6 percent as BA.5 (including 18 cases classified as BQ.1); 15 or 2.16 percent as XBC; two or 0.29 percent as BA.2.75; and 118 or 17 percent as other Omicron sublineages. Screenshotfrom DOH websi...

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MANILA, Feb. 12 -- The Department of Health (DOH), the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center (UP-PGC), and the UP-National Institutes of Health (UP-NIH) confirm the detection of nineteen (19) additional COVID-19 cases positive for the B.1.1.7 variant (UK variant). This brings the total B.1.1.7 variant cases in the country to 44. The DOH, UP-PGC, and UP-NIH further report that no other variant of concern was detected, and 60 samples from Region 7 fitting sequencing criteria were negative for the B.1.1.7 variant. The 19 additional cases were part of the sixth batch of 718 sampl...