THE Department of Health (DOH) on Friday, August 6, 2021, announced that an additional 119 cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) caused by the Delta variant have been detected in the country.
The University of the Philippines Philippine Genome Center also detected 125 Alpha variant cases, 94 Beta variant cases and 11 P.3 variant cases among the latest batch of samples sequenced.
These additional cases brought the Delta variant cases to 450, the Alpha variant cases to 2,093, the Beta variant cases to 2,362 and the P.3 variant cases to 287.
Of the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) cases, 93 are local cases, 20 are returning overseas Filipinos (ROF) and six cases are under verification.
The 93 local cases are from National Capital Region (18), Western Visayas (31), Central Luzon (18), Calabarzon (14) and Northern Mindanao (8).
There was one case each in Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula and Cordillera Administrative Region.
Of the 119, 118 cases have been tagged as recovered while the outcome of one case was being verified.
Of the additional 125 Alpha variant (B.1.1.7) cases, 115 are local cases, six ROF, and four are under verification.
Three patients had died and 122 cases have been tagged as recovered.
Of the 94 Beta variant (B.1.351) cases, 89 are local cases, three ROFs and two are being verified.
Seven had died while 87 cases have been tagged as recovered.
All 11 newly detected P.3 variant cases have recovered. (HDT / VoxPop Philippines)