Malacañang said that the existing alert level classifications for different areas in the country had been extended after the government's pandemic task force failed to declare the new status on July 15.
Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said this after the previous alert level status for the first half of the month expired on Friday.
In a statement, Angeles announced that the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases would meet on Monday to discuss the alert levels.
"The status quo holds for our alert levels, which the IATF will be reviewing on Monday (July 18)," she told reporters in a text message on July 16.
Angeles added that President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. will also meet with the Department of Health officer-in-charge Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire to talk about the issue.
"The IATF will continue to monitor the status of the pandemic," she said.
Despite the rising number of Covid-19 cases, the IATF, under the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte, placed many areas in the country under Alert Level 1, including Metro Manila, from July 1 to 15.
Alert Level 1 is the least strict of all risk level classifications in the Alert Levels System.
According to Angeles, the work of the IATF will continue under the Marcos administration.
"Tuluy-tuloy naman po ang trabaho ng IATF; hindi naman po sila naantala kahit (nagbago na) ng administrasyon (The IATF continues to do its job. They never stopped even if there was a change in the administration)," she said.
Duterte activated the IATF in 2020 following the detection of Covid-19 in the country.
Since then, members of the group, headed by the Health Secretary and the Executive Secretary, have been meeting to discuss measures to address the pandemic.