The Antipolo City public market has been placed on lockdown after 18 vendors tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19.

The number of police officers who tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 has breached 700.

The trend of COVID-19 cases in the country gives no reason for Filipinos to raise their fists in the air in exuberance, according to the University of the Philippines research team, whose projections Malacañang claimed the Philippines beat the other day.

The Philippines was in the limelight this week after being described in a press report as having the fastest-growing number of COVID-19 infections among the countries and territories in the Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization.

I have lived long enough in my 69 years to have seen the many political changes in the Philippines.