After Alpha and Beta last summer, and then Delta beginning in August, here comes Omicron. The warning comes from the Department of Health (DOH), which declared over the weekend that the arrival of the latest COVID “variant of concern” in the country is inevitable. Omicron, first detected in South Africa like the Beta variant, is now rapidly spreading in that country as well as in southern Africa, Europe and Israel, and has now reached Hong Kong – just a hop away from Manila. The World Health Organization last Friday warned that Omicron, with at least 30 mutations that bind themselves to the co…

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