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A total of 43 Omicron variant instances have been discovered.

The Philippines has identified 43 Omicron variant coronavirus cases, the majority of which are from international travelers.

Thirty-five of the cases are asymptomatic, seven are symptomatic, and one is undetermined.

During a televised public conference Tuesday, Philippine Genome Center (PGC) Executive Director Dr. Cynthia Saloma said, “These are the 21 local cases, and then 22 came from international tourists, and they were all collected between December 2 and 30, 2021.”

Saloma pointed out that the highly transmissible Delta variation remains prominent among cases nationwide, citing the results of genomic sequencing through December 2021.

“When we did a purposive sampling of ROFs [returning overseas Filipinos] at saka mga local samples, we saw a lot of Omicron (of ROFs and local samples).” We’ll have to corroborate that data with full sequencing results in January,” she said.

On the other hand, she added, the “nearly exponential” increase in cases per day could be an indication of the Omicron variant’s supremacy in the country.

“We’re just perplexed and shocked by the increasing number of instances,” she added, adding that this is “quite typical of Omicron as observed by other countries.”

The PGC plans to finish more genome sequencing this week and deliver sequencing results by the end of the week.

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