The Department of Health (DOH), the University of the Philippines – Philippine Genome Center (UP-PGC), and the University of the Philippines – National Institutes of Health (UP-NIH) reported today that they were able to detect 1,569 Omicron variant cases from January 30, 2022 to February 6, 2022.
About 702 Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant cases or about 94.35 percent, and nine Delta (B.1.617.2) variant cases, or 1.21 percent were detected out of the 744 samples sequenced in the whole genome sequencing done last January 30,
Also, from the 936 samples from the sequencing run of UP-PGC Diliman, UP-PGC Visayas, and the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) last February 6, 2022, it yielded 867 Omicron variant cases (92.63 percent) and seven (0.75 percent) Delta variant cases.
The 1,569 Omicron variant cases were composed of 1,458 local cases, 76 Returning Overseas Filipinos (ROFs), and 35 cases whose indicated addresses are being verified. About 72 cases are still active, four cases have died, 1,403 cases have been tagged as recovered, while the outcomes of the 90 cases are still being verified.
As of this date, there are a total of nine deaths among confirmed Omicron cases, while the total number of confirmed Omicron variant cases is now at 2,722. Among these cases, 499 were reported to have been fully vaccinated, 11 were partially vaccinated, 15 were unvaccinated, and 2,197 are those whose vaccination status are currently being verified. Vaccination status of these cases were from reports of the Epidemiology and Surveillance Units (ESUs).
On the other hand, the additional 16 Delta variant cases were local ones, where two cases are still active while 14 cases have been tagged as recovered.
The total number of confirmed Delta variant cases is now at 8,663. Among these cases, 628 were reported to have been fully vaccinated, 230 were partially vaccinated, 536 were unvaccinated, and 7,269 are those whose vaccination status are still being verified.
The DOH, UP-PGC, and UP-NIH also announced that UP-PGC Visayas has recently concluded a successful initial sequencing run of 94 samples from Western Visayas and can now regularly sequence samples. This sequencing facility will mainly accommodate samples from the Visayas regions.