MORE areas in the country have been placed under the lowest Alert Level 1 status from June 1 to 15 despite the local transmission of an Omicron subvariant, Malacañang announced on Saturday.

Acting Palace spokesman Martin Andanar said the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) approved the recommendations of the Sub-Technical Working Group on Data Analytics to provide 'clarification' on the alert level classification of provinces, highly urbanized cities (HUCs), independent component cities (ICCs), component cities and municipalities effective June 1, 2022.