INQUIRER FILE PHOTO Two more cases of EG.5, an Omicron subvariant under monitoring, had been detected in the country last week, according to the latest biosurveillance report of the Department of Health (DOH). The data from July 26 to Aug. 1 showed that both were local cases, with one patient residing in Metro Manila, and the other in the Cordillera Administrative Region. The two samples identified with the latest COVID-19 strain in the country was part of the 767 positive cases sequenced by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine and the laboratories of the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center in Quezon City and Mindanao.

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