MANILA, Philippines — The new Omicron subvariant XBF is not expected to cause a surge in COVID-19 cases in the country, infectious disease expert Dr. Edsel Salvaña said at the Laging Handa public ...

MANILA, Philippines — The first case of COVID-19’s Omicron XBF in the country was a Filipino older person who did not travel. The Department of Health (DOH) revealed this Thursday after its detection ...

The Philippines has detected its first case of COVID-19 Omicron subvariant XBF—a recombinant sublineage of BA.5.2.3 and CJ.1 —based on the latest data by the Department of Health (DOH). While XBF was ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) yesterday reported the detection of the first case of Omicron subvariant XBF in the country. Latest COVID-19 biosurveillance report released by the ...

THERE is no evidence yet that the newly detected Omicron subvariant XBF causes more severe symptoms of the coronavirus, Philippine health authorities said on Thursday. “We see this as a variant that ...

AN infectious disease expert said on Thursday that the recently discovered XBF Omicron subvariant of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the Philippines will not cause severe symptoms despite ...

PHILIPPINE health authorities on Wednesday reported the first case of the Omicron subvariant XBF in the country. The XBF sample was collected in December 2022 and sequenced on Jan. 28, the Department ...

MANILA, Philippines — The COVID-19 Omicron subvariant XBF is now in the Philippines, the Department of Health (DOH) bared Wednesday afternoon. The latest COVID-19 biosurveillance report issued by the ...