(PNA photo by Avito Dalan) MANILA - The country is now classified high risk for Covid-19 following the increase in cases toward the end of 2021, a health official said Monday. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the epidemic curve shows the current average daily cases have increased significantly by 570 percent this week - December 27, 2021 to January 2, 2022 - which is seven times higher than in previous weeks. "Nationally we are now at high-risk case classification from low-risk case class in the previous week showing a positive two-week growth rate at 222 percent, and a "moderate risk average daily attack rate of 1.07 case for every 100,000 individuals," Vergeire said in a media forum. Latest data from the Department of Health showed that the island groups are showing signs of increase in cases while the National Capital Region (NCR) shows a sharp uptick in cases in the recent weeks. "Likewise, the NCR is at high-risk case classification showing a h