The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday said it was continuously monitoring, both at local and global levels, the prevalent Omicron subvariants with higher transmissibility.
In a forum, DOH-Epidemiology Bureau Director IV Dr. Alethea De Guzman said Omicron and its subvariants had become the global prevalent sequence.
De Guzman said the Health Department was monitoring two Omicron subvariants, BQ.1. and BA.2.75, based on the sequence submission. The DOH official said BQ.1.1 accounts for almost 14%, while the BA.2.75 accounts for around 17% of prevalence. Last October 2022, US health regulators estimated that BQ.1 and the closely related BQ.1.1 accounted forMeanwhile, Dr. Rontgene Solante earlier said thatDe Guzman said four of the eight Filipinos who arrived in the Philippines from China over the holidays had tested positive for COVID-19 and had been infected with Omicron subvariants BF.7 and BA.5.2.
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