While COVID-19 infections remained on a downtrend nearly a week after the holiday gatherings, the Department of Health will continue to monitor trends as more test results come in. | kdevillaINQ /PDI
The national positivity rate also has gone down to 6.6 percent in the recent week from 8.8 last week, she added. Hospitalizations across the country are also at low risk.
The XBB.1.5 has caused a rapid increase in cases within just weeks in the United States. Health experts have also expressed concern over this Omicron subvariant, which they said was the “most immune evasive” so far.The World Health Organization this week said that it would closely assess the risk of XBB.1.5, which is a recombinant of two BA.2 sublineages.
The DOH had reported eight travelers from China who tested positive from antigen tests upon arrival in the Philippines from Dec. 27 to Jan. 2.
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