Even prior to this announcement, the ombudsman's central office was already closed and was to remain so until April 18, due to increased infections among its employees, 17 of whom tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month. 

The Department of Information and Communications Technology and the San Juan city government are pilot testing the country’s COVID-19 vaccine registry.

A suspected member of a criminal gang affiliated with Abu Sayyaf bandits was arrested at his hideout in Barangay Datu Esmael in Dasmariñas, Cavite on Thursday.

A member of urban poor group Kadamay was shot dead in Silay, Negros Occidental on Thursday.

A woman and her son died when a fire hit a residential area in Leganes town shortly after midnight yesterday.

Quirino will remain under modified enhanced community quarantine until April 30.

Thirty additional nurses from Central Visayas will be deployed to augment health workers in Metro Manila amid a surge in COVID-19 cases.

A boat loaded with 300 cases of assorted smuggled cigarettes worth P10.6 million was intercepted off the coast of Zamboanga City on Thursday.

Residents of Bicol and Eastern Visayas have been warned to brace for strong winds and heavy rains due to Typhoon Bising (international name Surigae), which entered the Philippine area of responsibility yesterday.

San Miguel Corp. is advising motorists that the two-lane steel ramp connecting the Alabang viaduct to the elevated Skyway system will be used for southbound traffic only starting Monday.