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PHILIPPINES DETECTS 7 MORE ARCTURUS CASES


By GISELLE OMBAY, GMA Integrated News

Published May 21, 2023 3:31pm
Updated May 21, 2023 6:02pm


Seven additional cases of the COVID-19 Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16 or “Arcturus”
were detected in the country, bringing the total caseload to 11.

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Based on the Department of Health’s latest COVID-19 biosurveillance report, two
new Arcturus cases were identified in Central Luzon and another two in the
Western Visayas. The Bicol Region, Mimaropa, and Cordillera Administrative
Region (CAR) have one case each.

The data was based on the samples sequenced by the Southern Philippines Medical
Center (SPMC), Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), and the
University of the Philippines - Philippine Genome Center (UP-PGC) Main and
Visayas released last May 9 to May 11, 2023.

The XBB.1.16 is tagged as a “variant of interest” by the World Health
Organization (WHO), and a “variant under monitoring” by the European Centre for
Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

DOH officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said it was likely local
transmission of Arcturus was taking place in the Philippines, considering that
there was “no linkage” in the recently detected cases.




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Despite this, Vergeire said the public should not worry about local transmission
as long as they adhere to health protocols such as wearing face masks as needed,
and getting vaccinated and boosted.

Other subvariants

Aside from the Arcturus, the DOH said that of the recent 137 samples sequenced,
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There were also 36 Omicron BA.2.3.20, seven XBC, and two BA.2.75 cases detected.

Six other cases, meanwhile, had “no assigned lineage,” according to DOH. — DVM,
GMA Integrated News

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