THE health department on Tuesday said that 79 more Omicron subvariant cases have been detected from various regions.
At the DOH briefing, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire reported that of these fresh cases logged from July 7 to 11, 60 were BA.5, 17 were BA.2.12.1, and two were BA.4.
Of the new BA.5 infections, 58 individuals were from Western Visayas, and one each from the Davao Region and Soccsksargen.
This brought the total number of detected BA.5 cases in the country to 293, according to Vergeire.
DOH said that 43 of these new BA.5 cases are now tagged as recovered, 14 are still undergoing isolation, while the situation of the remaining three is still being verified.
One of them presented mild symptoms while the disease severities of the 59 others are being determined.
One individual was also unvaccinated, while the vaccination statuses of others are still being determined. Their exposures to the virus and travel histories are also still unknown.
Vergeire also said that six of the 17 new BA.2.12.1 cases were from Western Visayas, ten from Davao Region, while one was a returning overseas Filipino (ROF).
There are now 87 total cases of BA.2.12.1 detected in the country, she added.
Fifteen of them are now considered as recovered while the two others are still under isolation.
Two of them presented mild symptoms, one had severe symptoms, and one was asymptomatic, while the condition of the remaining 13 is being verified.
Their exposure to the virus and travel histories is also being determined.
Further, one individual each from the Davao Region and Soccsksargen also tested positive for the Omicron BA.4 subvariant.
