After the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center and Southern Philippines Medical Center sequenced 137 samples last January 3 to 9, 52 samples were classified as Omicron BA.2.3.20, 28 were XBB, 13 were XBC, 10 were BA.5, and one sample was BN.1.Of the 52 additional BA.2.3.20 cases, 51 were local cases from Regions 1, 2, 3, 4A, 5, 6, 7, Cordillera Administrative Region , and National Capital Region ; while the remaining case was a returning overseas Filipino .
Meanwhile, of the 10 new BA.5 cases, six were local cases from Region 6 and 11, while the remaining four cases were ROFs.
May investigation sa vaccine versua the new variant. Just saying
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