The country has detected over 600 new cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
Health authorities say most of the Omicron cases in the country are of the 'stealth Omicron' sub-lineage.
Philippine Genome Center Executive Director Dr. Cynthia Saloma joins us live.
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