391,000 are expected to be delivered this month. The DOH also confirms local transmission of the Arcturus subvariant.
Aside from the bivalent boosters, the DOH expects to receive 2 million more doses from the global COVAX facility this year., also known as XBB 1.16.
“We think that there is already no linkage to that we had been identifying, [so] there has already been local transmission of Arcturus,” Vergeire said. According to the World Health Organization, there is a rise in XBB.1.16 subvariant cases globally, which appear to be more contagious, although no localities report a rise in hospitalizations due to the subvariant.
As of the last case bulletin released on May 15, there were 12,414 new cases from May 1 to 7. Only 53 of those cases were critical. Health care utilization, or the number of ICU and non-ICU COVID-19 beds occupied, remained low at 18.8% and 21.7%, respectively.
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