5 areas in Mindanao placed under Alert Level 3 from January 14-31 ThisIsOurMindanao
DAVAO CITY – With the surge of COVID-19 cases in the country after the holidays and the arrival of the Omicron variant, five areas in Mindanao have been placed under Alert Level 3 from January 14 to 31, the national Inter-Agency Task Force announced Wednesday.
Davao City, considered as the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mindanao, reported 243 new cases on Wednesday, bringing the total cases to 54,700 with 811 active, 52,094 recovered, and 1,795 dead, according to the Department of Health -Davao. Earlier in the day, Dr. Michelle Schlosser, spokesperson of the Davao City COVID-19 Task Force, said they were expecting the city to be placed under Alert Level 3 as it has been seeing a gradual increase in the number of new infections at the start of the year but authorities expected the surge will take place by either the third or fourth week of this month.
She said the DOH-Davao submitted 4,000 specimens for whole genome sequencing last December 30 to detect other variants of COVID-19. The results, Schlosser said, are expected to come out in three to four weeks.
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