House Deputy Majority Leader Janette Garin urged the government not to make “drastic decisions” such as reintroducing mandatory COVID-19 testing for travelers coming from China which is experiencing a surge in cases. | JMAurelioINQ kdevillaINQ /PDI
Garin also urged the Department of Health to brief other government agencies on the soundness of the DOTr’s recommendation.
Last week, Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista floated the idea of requiring COVID-19 testing for travelers from China as Philippine Airlines resumes regular flights for the Manila-Xiamen route on Jan. 13. For Garin, the most that the government could require would be a negative result from a reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction test prior to a traveler’s departure.
Solante told the Inquirer that while preliminary evidence suggested that XBB.1.5 was the “most immune evasive so far,” it was not a new COVID-19 strain nor was it significantly different from other subvariants.“If the US is reporting this XBB 1.5, it’s not a new variant. It is still a subvariant of the highly transmissible Omicron,” he said.The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had said that XBB.1.
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