NO CAUSE FOR PANIC. Undated photo shows the downtown district of Cebu City, which registered about 46 percent of the 8,091 regional tally of Covid-19 in Central Visayas. However, DOH-7 chief pathologist Dr. Mary Jean Loreche on Wednesday (Jan. 19, 2022) said 22 cases of the Omicron variant detected in Region 7 should not be a cause for panic but prompt the public to be more cautious. (Photo contributed by Jun Nagac) CEBU CITY - A Department of Health (DOH) official in Region 7 on Wednesday said there is no reason to panic and hoard medicines amid reports of 22 confirmed cases of the Omicron coronavirus disease (Covid-19) variant in Central Visayas. Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, DOH-7 chief pathologist, said in a presser there is already community transmission of the Omicron variant in the region as five out the 22 cases confirmed by the Philippine Genome Center (PGC) are from community samples, while 10 are from overseas Filipino workers, six from the returning Filipino overseas, and one from
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