Metro Manila is seeing a continued spike in COVID-19 infections, but still with low hospitalizations, as the seven-day positivity rate rose to 14.3 percent. | kdevillaINQ /PDI
COVID-19 cases nationwide have been on the rise in recent weeks amid the entry of new Omicron sublineages found to have a growth advantage.
Fresh COVID-19 cases climbed to 858 on Friday, bringing the country’s total active case count to 5,293, based on the COVID-19 tracker data of the Department of Health . The DOH last week reported that XBB.1.16, a new Omicron sublineage said to be more transmissible but with a low level of risk, had been found in a resident of Iloilo province.Nicknamed “Arcturus,” after a red giant star, XBB.1.16 is a recombinant of BA.2.10.1 and BA.2.75. It was elevated this month to “variant of interest” from “variant under monitoring” by the WHO.
Meanwhile, infectious diseases experts had strongly urged vulnerable individuals, such as the elderly and those with comorbidities, to keep their masks on, especially in high-risk areas to keep themselves protected from COVID-19 and other contagious diseases.
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