The Department of Health (DOH) reported three more cases of Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16 or Arcturus in the country, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to four.
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After 750 Filipinos were repatriated from Sabah last September 6, the Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur vowed that it would continue assisting all Filipinos in the Malaysian state.
According to the Task Group on Management of Returning Overseas Filipinos, nearly 2.067 million of the 3.11 million were previously OFWs, while 724,361 were non-OFWs and 313,205 were foreign nationals.
The past few weeks saw the emergence of a surreptitious subvariant of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which experts called “stealth.” Stealth, often synonymous to sneaky, was used to describe this sub-lineage called BA.2 since its genetic mutations are harder to differentiate from the deadly Delta variant. And…