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Philippine Star
Philippine Star
COMMONSENSE – Marichu A. Villanueva – The Philippine Star January 14, 2022 | 12:00am At the current rate of increase in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection in terms of cases that spiked in a matter of two weeks, the Omicron variant has become the new dominant foreign variant here in our country. The first two cases of Omicron variant were detected here in our country last Dec.15. A few weeks later, it has obviously pushed much faster the cumulative COVID-19 cases in the Philippines to reach the more than 3-million count last Tuesday (Jan.11). In the latest wave of the pandemic, t…