MANILA, May 17 (Xinhua) — The Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) confirmed on Tuesday local transmission of the highly transmissible Omicron BA.2.12.1 subvariant of COVID-19 in the Southeast Asian country.
Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that local clusters of the BA.2.12.1 variant infection have been detected in Metro Manila, the Western Visayas region in the central Philippines, and Pue