"NCR Plus would benefit from remaining under GCQ status for now," OCTA Research said on Monday.

In a briefing Monday, DENR Undersecretary Benny Antiporda said the government went out of its way to clean up all the rivers and tributaries that drain into the Manila Bay, including the 27-kilometer Pasig River.

The newly reported cases are relatively low as DOH said six laboratories did not submit testing results.

Lawmakers from the Bayan Muna party-list on Monday called for a House of Representatives inquiry into cyber attacks against independent news sites Bulatlat.com, AlterMidya and human rights alliance Karapatan’s website.

“The conviction of all these arrested drug suspects would prove we are winning the war on drugs and that it has been effectively curbing the further proliferation of illegal drugs in the country,” Eleazar went as far as saying. 

The Presidential Communications Operations Office, the government's lead communication arm, is no longer in the Malacañang compound and is now renting an office space along the United Nations Avenue in Manila.

The Supreme Court, sitting as Presidential Electoral Tribunal, has directed Vice President Leni Robredo to answer former Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s appeal on the dismissal of his poll protest.

Official data showed that 10,065,414 doses were given as of June 27. Some 2,525,286 are now fully vaccinated while 7,538,128 have received their first shot.

"We of course support this measure in principle, but we have to consider what's happening right now. Our employers are doing their best, sacrificing not to close their businesses in order to help our employees," Sen. Joel Villanueva said. 

“Per BI records, there is no record of departure of Peter Go Lim,” Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said Monday.