The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday reported 651 more cases of the highly transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant.
In a press briefing, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the latest whole-genome sequencing has 748 samples collected from AMrch to October this year.
Of the said samples, 87.03 % were accounted as Delta variant, 2.94 % or 22 cases of Alpha variant, and 2.01 % or 15 cases of Beta variant.
Vergire added that Delta remains the most common lineage detected in the country, making up 34.59% of the total samples sequenced.
On the other hand, the DOH also detected the B.1.617.1 variant in a 32-year-old male from Floridablanca in Pampanga. Vergeire added the man had a mild case of COVID-19 and has recovered.
This variant, formerly known as the "Kappa" was still classified as a variant of interest by the World Health Organization when the local case was seen in June.
DOH also reported another case of the B.1.1.318, or the variant under monitoring that was originally detected in Mauritius.
The agency detected the country's first case of this variant in October, but the patient's samples were collected way back in March.
