Philippine officials on Monday declared that the country has hurdled the threat of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 as the National Capital Region and 38 other areas eased to Alert Level 1 on March 1.
Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez drew attention to the fact that the least stringent COVID-19 alert level was attained in the said areas exactly a year after the Philippines started its vaccination program against COVID-19.
Galvez said it was on February 28 that the first vaccine doses from China and that the vaccine rollout started on March 1. The highly contagious Omicron variant caused an exponential increase in the number of COVID-19 cases after the Christmas holidays in 2021, prompting the imposition of stringent measures as high as Alert Level 4 in some areas.
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