Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the additional Delta cases were "retrospective" samples that date back from April to June 2021.
“Ibig sabihin ‘yung mga samples from the past months. If you will notice, our samples were from April to June kaya walang masyadong Delta case na nade-detect dahil hindi pa siya nakakalat noon dito sa atin during that time that the samples were taken,” she later added. It is followed by the Beta variant with 3,229 cases or 23.31 percent and Alpha variant with 2,847 cases or 20.55 percent.In the same briefing, Vergeire disclosed that the Philippine Genome Center was preparing to process 1,500 samples per week from its original capacity of 750 samples.
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