ASEANEWS HEADLINES | COVID OMICRON – Philippines still Omicron-free

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Omicron stalls Alert Level 1

DOH admits no ‘foreseeable’ shift yet despite PH at minimum risk

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The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday said the country’s quarantine status will not go down to Alert Level 1 anytime soon due to threat of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, despite its being classified as “minimal risk.”
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“We’re not yet easing to Alert Level 1.
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I don’t like it, let’s remain under Alert Level 2 for now.
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Let’s observe and monitor first,” Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said in Filipino over radio dzBB.
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This developed as the World Health Organization appealed to governments to intensify sequencing tests to detect Omicron in their countries.
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Early indications of the severity of the Omicron COVID-19 variant are “a bit encouraging,” top US pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci said Sunday, while cautioning that more information was still needed.
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The WHO previously warned it could take weeks to determine how infectious the variant is, whether it causes more severe illness, and how effective treatments and vaccines are against it.“

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ASEAN Covid-19 Table – 06 December 2021

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Asean as a whole has reported more than 14.2 million COVID-19 cases. Of this, more than 510,000 are active cases as of December 06.

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 219 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances.

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