THREE more XBB.1.16 Covid-19 cases, or the so-called "Arcturus" subvariant of Omicron, had been detected in Western Visayas based on the latest genomic sequencing.

The samples were sequenced from April 26 to May 6 by the Philippine Genome Center and San Lazaro Hospital.

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