The Philippines has officially announced that Omicron has replaced Delta as the dominant variant of the COVID-19 virus in the country.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said this in the taped weekly briefing with President Rodrigo Duterte that aired late Monday night.
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Based on the latest genomic sequencing run on Jan. 3, 60% of the samples sequenced were found positive for Omicron variant.
“So it’s already the dominant variant — whereas before it was the Delta,” said Duque.
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In the genome sequencing of 48 samples 60.42% or 29 cases were Omicron cases while 18 were Delta cases.
Earlier on Jan. 6, the Department of Health detected a total of 43 cases of Omicron variant in the country. (AW)
