THE Philippines has reported an additional 492 new cases of the highly-infectious Omicron variant of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), including the first two deaths from the strain, according to the Department of Health.

The detections were part of the 715 samples that were sequenced by the Philippine Genome Center on January 13 and 14.

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