Entry of the COVID-19 variant Omicron is not completely preventable and that the efforts being conducted are to buy time to prepare in case of its detection in the country, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Monday, Dec. 6.
Entry of the coronavirus disease variant Omicron is not completely preventable and that the efforts being conducted are to buy time to prepare in case of its detection in the country, the Department of Health said on Monday, Dec. 6.During a media briefing, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said border controls, biosurveillance, and community response are being done to buy the country enough time to prepare for the new COVID-19 variant.
She mentioned that when DOH was preparing for the Delta variant, they had already thought that it would enter the country no matter what happened since borders are very “porous”. Through various COVID-19 efforts, Vergeire said that the government managed to delay the variant’s arrival by a month, giving the country time to devise plans.
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