"Let's be clear: While Omicron causes less severe disease than Delta, it remains a dangerous virus, particularly for those who are unvaccinated," World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in mid-January. Daily cases in the Philippines, Australia and Japan ...
The Philippines, which has among the worst coronavirus outbreaks in Asia, is battling a renewed surge in COVID-19 cases driven by community transmission of the more infectious Delta variant. The health ministry recorded 19,441 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, notching a record-high for the thi...
MANILA, Philippines — The country’s first confirmed case of the more infectious COVID-19 variant has tested negative for the virus but he will remain under monitoring for two more weeks, the Quezon City government said Friday. “The doctors at the quarantine facility where he is staying...
Fueling experts’ concerns are a large number of mutations separating this new variant from omicron predecessors. Some of those mutations are in areas that relate to the spike protein and could allow the virus to bind onto cells more efficiently, Binnicker said. Another concern is that the genet...
MANILA, Philippines - Measures used to counter the delta variant should remain the foundation for fighting the coronavirus pandemic, even in the face of the new omicron version of the virus, World Health Organization officials said Friday, while acknowledging that the travel restrictions imposed ...
The DOH has reported less than 1,000 daily new cases for the third straight day as the wave of infections triggered by the Omicron variant of the virus, which peaked in mid-January, was ebbing. The country has seen four COVID-19 waves since 2020. The DOH reported the highest single-day...
Novarg.B threatens SCO and Microsoft BitDefender antivirus experts detected a new version of the very much discussed Novarg computer virus (also called Mydoom). The Novarg.B is slightly different from the first virus variant, with only a few technical variations. ...
The Philippines’s already stretched healthcare system is under more strain as the country reports its second-largest daily increase in COVID-19 infections since the pandemic, providing more evidence of how the virulent Delta variant may be spreading. ...
Vergeire said the fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant is likely driving the surge, as the Philippines has detected 14 Omicron cases, including three local transmissions. Metro Manila mayors will impose measures restricting the mobility of unvaccinated and partially vaccinated people, including minors...
She said it would take researchers a few weeks to understand what it [the new variant] means, but action was needed in the meantime. “Everybody that’s out there needs to understand that the more this virus circulates, the more opportunities the virus has to change, the more mutations...