QCPD added that the string of operations was "in compliance with the guidance and directives" of Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte.

"They should stop using the people's resources for their own political agenda in the 2022 elections. That's exactly what they are doing with the people's funds and resources while still wanting mass testing, vaccines, and aid," Zarate said. 

The Department of Health on Sunday said 5,916 more Filipinos contracted the COVID-19, bringing the country's total to 1,473,025.

"Let's do everything we can to subvert this crisis," Vice President Leni Robredo said Sunday. "It's the children who would really suffer if we don't do this."

Leaders of indigenous non-Moro tribal communities took turns expressing favor, during a forum last Friday, for the deferment of the 2022 pioneering elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

“After months of being confined inside their houses, we saw the need to give minors a chance to go out and get some fresh air in outdoor areas that are deemed safe,” said Belmonte.

"To treat this ruling as merely a piece of paper is to lack the courage and resolve required of leadership," the Liberal Party said.

"Despite the unprecedentedly complicated international situation in recent years the comradely trust and militant friendship between the DPRK and China get stronger day by day," Kim wrote in his message to Xi, referring to the North by its official n...

"This means they will be part of our police operational procedures," he also said. 

Though he has yet to play for the FEU seniors team due to the pandemic, Abarrientos would find himself locking horns with a number of his teammates — especially those coming from the three-peat defending champions Ateneo.