Philippines' COVID-19 cases hit another record high; Omicron variant predominant among cases

Omicron COVID-variant is likely to become a predominant variant in the Philippines, according to the World Health Organisation.

Health officials say they assume that local transmission of the highly contagious omicron variant is driving the current spike in cases. Source: AAP Image/AP Photo/Basilio Sepe

Highlights

• The COVID-19 positivity rate in the Philippines is at 47.9 per cent, higher compared to previous weeks.
• 28 provinces and cities placed on Alert Level 3, effective January 14-31.
• COMELEC, confident that their servers have not been hacked.

Although WHO acknowledges that there are only few genome sequencing results of Omicron COVID-19 variant, but authorities are seeing its rapid transmissibility.

The Department of Health recorded 34,022 new COVID-19 cases on, Thursday. 237,387 were active cases and there were 82 deaths.

 

 

 

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