THE highly transmissible Covid-19 subvariants called FLiRT could have entered the country, the Department of Health (DoH) said.
THE highly transmissible Covid -19 subvariants called FLiRT could have entered the country, the Department of Health said.In a statement, Department of Health spokesman and acting Assistant Secretary Albert Francis Domingo said the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center and Research Institute for Tropical Medicine were doing sequencing efforts to determine the presence of such variants.
Bed utilization remained low, with 12 percent, or 141 out of 1,155 dedicated Covid-19 intensive care unit beds currently occupied, while 14 percent, or 1,435 out of 10,536 available Covid-19 beds across the country, also currently occupied.Severe and critical Covid-19 admissions were only 9 percent of the total 151 admissions.Domingo said there was no scientific basis for travel restrictions.'The department remains in close coordination with international health authorities.
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