(UPDATE) EVEN with cases continuing to decline and hospitalizations are on a plateau, the Department of Health (DoH) continues to see Covid-19 as a "continuing risk" because of rising multiple subvariants.

This comes as the country detected multiple cases of the highly-infectious subvariants of Omicron variant, the XBB.1.5 and the CH.1.1 or the "Orthrus" subvariants.

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