The government is pinning its hopes on a new alert level system that could balance the need to keep the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-190 cases down with the demand for the economy to get back on its feet. Metro Manila takes the lead, and will be placed under Alert Level 4 starting on September 16, 2021.
And in the ongoing squabble between Malacanang and the Senate, President Duterte said that all Cabinet members summoned by senators should first seek clearance with him, and stepped up his tussle with Senator Richard Gordon when he pledged to campaign against him in the 2022 polls.
These are among the top stories this Tuesday afternoon, September 14, 2021.
- PH COVID-19 Update: 18,056 new cases, 20,542 recoveries, 222 fatalities
- President Duterte’s Talk to the People
- Other notes from the Palace
- Senate probe on allegedly anomalous pandemic purchases
- Weather Update
- Aftermath of ‘Jolina’, ‘Kiko’
- Show of force
- Milestone
- PH-US relations
- Pacquiao sues religious group leader
- Home at last
- Judicial Corner
- Legislative Corner
- PNP Corner
- Information/Communications Corner
- Religious Corner
- Metro Roundup
- Provincial Roundup