PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has extended the state of calamity in the Philippines for one more year amid rising cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the country.

The President signed on Friday Proclamation 1218, which sets the nationwide state of calamity from Sept. 13, 2021 to Sept. 12, 2022, "unless earlier lifted or extended as circumstances may warrant."

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