Meanwhile, medical experts disclosed that Omicron BQ.1, a new sublineage of the highly transmissible Omicron subvariant, has been detected in the country. READ:
Meanwhile, medical experts disclosed that Omicron BQ.1, a new sublineage of the highly transmissible Omicron subvariant, has been detected in the country.
Luzon provinces that showed a decline in positivity rates over the same period were Albay, Bataan, Camarines Sur, Cavite, Isabela, Laguna, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Quezon, Rizal, Tarlac, and Zambales. Dr. Rontege Solante, an infectious disease expert, said COVID-19 vaccinations should be intensified following the detection of the BQ.1 sub-variant.
“We still have vulnerable populations, those with comorbidities, or those who got the primary vaccine but not the booster, we encourage you to get the vaccine for a happy Christmas, so there won’t be virus transmission at home, and also to protect yourselves against severe infection,” he said. A VOI is coronavirus variant with genetic changes that are predicted or known to alter virus characteristics such as transmissibility, disease severity and immune escape.
However, he said most of these new cases are expected to be mild only if those infected are fully vaccinated and have received their booster shots. “BA.5 is the dominant subvariant in the world. Experts see that it has additional mutations that can increase its immune escape against infections in our vaccines, but there is no evidence that it is more severe,” he said.
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