In a statement, the DOH said it has been operating with the “assumption” that the flagged Omicron subvariants are “already likely here” in the country.br br Citing the recent sequencing data by the University of the Philippines - Philippine Genome Center (UP-PGC), the presence of the new Covid-19 variants has been confirmed with the identification of 30 cases of JN.1, 2 cases of JN.1.18, and 2 cases of KP.2.