THE Health department reported on Wednesday the detection of the first case of BA 2.12 Omicron sub-variant of Covid-19 in the country.

The carrier was a 52-year-old Finnish woman who arrived in the Philippines on April 2 and was not required to undergo quarantine because she was fully vaccinated and asymptomatic.

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