The Department of Health (DOH) is studying the possibility of recommending further easing of border restrictions due to COVID-19 for foreign travelers who wish to travel in the Philippines, an official said Tuesday. READ:
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“We really saw after the middle of August, third week of August, the mobility patterns were higher in Metro Manila and even in the other regions,” she said. Almost 18.9 million have received their first booster dose and almost 2.7 million have received their second booster shot. The BA.4 and BA.5 types have in particular helped to drive a wave of new cases of the disease in Europe and the United States in recent months.
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