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OCTA Research Fellow Fr. Nicanor Austriaco said on Wednesday, Jan. 5, that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) variant Omicron is the beginning of the end of the pandemic. People flock to Ilaya in Binondo, Manila to shop on Jan. 2, 2022. Metro Manila will be under Alert Level 3 starting Jan. 3 until...

DOH The Department of Health (DOH) reported new 640 Delta coronavirus variant cases in the Philippines. In a statement on Monday, Sept. 13, the DOH said that 584 of the new cases were local cases, two were returning overseas Filipinos (ROF), and four cases are currently being verified if these are...

Paris, France The Delta variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 doubles the risk of hospitalization compared to the Alpha variant it has supplanted as the dominant strain worldwide, researchers reported Saturday in The Lancet. Only 1.8 percent of the more than 43,000 COVID cases assessed in...

There is no case of the highly contagious Delta variant in Muntinlupa, according to the City Health Office (CHO). On Sunday, the Department of Health (DOH), University of the Philippines’ Philippine Genome Center (UP-PGC) and University of the Philippines National Institutes of Health reported 55...

The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday, June 21, reported the detection of four additional Delta (B.1.617.2) variant cases, 14 Alpha (B.1.1.7) variant cases, 21 Beta (B.1.351) variant cases, and one Theta (P.3) variant case. DOH/MB Citing the latest whole-genome sequencing report, the Health...