Covid cases up 70 percent

Cases of Covid-19 in the country, particularly in Metro Manila, have started to peak, the Department of Health said on Monday. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said that infections rose by 70 percent in the past week nationwide. Cases in the National Capital Region doubled.

Vergeire said that the increase is similar to when the country started to record a significant increase in cases in September 2021 and January 2022 during the start of the Delta and Omicron wave. However, the official said the trend should not be compared to a "surge."

"Right now, what we are seeing is that the number of cases is continuously increasing especially in the National Capital Region. We can see that this is really the start of the peak in the number of cases," Vergeire said.

Oil companies announce third straight week of price hike

Oil companies announce another round of hike in fuel prices for the third straight week. In separate advisories, Seaoil and Cleanfuel said their pump prices will increase per liter by ₱0.80 for gasoline and ₱3.10 for diesel effective June 21.

Seaoil will implement the price hike at 6:00 a.m. while Cleanfuel will impose the increase at 8:01 a.m. Seaoil also announced that kerosene price will go up by ₱1.70. Other companies have yet to make similar announcements.

As of June 14, per-liter prices have gone up by ₱28.70 for gasoline, ₱41.15 for diesel, and ₱37.95 for kerosene since the start of 2022, according to the Department of Energy’s latest monitor.

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NASA is targeting Saturday, June 18, for the beginning of the next wet dress rehearsal test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with tanking operations on Monday, June 20.