(PNA File photo) MANILA - The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) is now in waiting mode on when the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) will lower the alert level status in Metro Manila amid a spike in the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases. The PSC was supposed to clear the national athletes of training inside its facilities beginning Monday. But training has been deferred with the so-called NCR Plus area, composed of Metro Manila, Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna, and Cavite, currently under Alert Level 3. "With the present situation, we are evaluating that most probably when the IATF lowers the alert level that allows us to resume practice, then we can practice in PhilSports [Arena], where there are eight venues and more or less 10-12 in Rizal [Memorial Sports Complex]," PSC chairman William "Butch" Ramirez said in the Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum on Tuesday. Ramirez recently talked to PSC Medical and Scient