DOH logs two more EG.5 Omicron cases
The Department of Health (DOH) has detected two additional cases of the EG.5 Omicron subvariant of COVID-19 in the Philippines.
These new cases bring the total number of EG.5 infections to 10, with previous reports showing eight cases last week.
Out of the 767 samples sequenced from July 26 to August 1 by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine and the University of the Philippines - Philippine Genome Center, about 84% were classified as XBB subvariants.
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