DOH detects 711 new cases of Omicron subvariants

The Department of Health (DOH) has detected 711 new cases of highly transmissible Omicron subvariants.

Out of the total samples sequenced by San Lazaro Hospital, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, and University of the Philippines - Philippine Genome Center from March 6 to 10, about 264 were classified as BA.5 (including three BQ.1 cases and one BF.7 case); 259 as BA.2.3.20; 72 as XBB (including ten XBB.1.5 cases); 28 as XBC; four as BA.2.75 (including two BN.1 cases and one CH.1.1 case); three as BA.4; and eighty-one as other Omicron sublineages.