Most teachers in a survey with 6,731 respondents said distance learning is taking a toll on their physical and mental wellbeing.

The Philippines on Thursday recorded 8,276 additional COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections to 1,028,738.

Distribution of ivermectin “on its face” is a violation of the Food and Drug Administration law, said Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra but deferred on stating whether this can fall under warrantless arrests.

For Recto, it is high time for the government's mass of eligible casual employees to be granted a pathway to jobs which carry security of tenure. 

“There is a need for coordination because the LGU has a big role to play. First, the LGU must determine where the community pantry must be set up. The venue should be at the area where it is needed the most,” he stressed.

"Filipinos deserve, and should demand, a President who loves Filipinos first and foremost and who will uncompromisingly defend Philippine sovereignty and sovereign rights in the West Philippine Sea," Carpio said in a statement.

Over a million more doses of the CoronaVac, the vaccine developed by Chinese drugmaker Sinovac Biotech, are expected to arrive in the Philippines next week, Malacañang said Thursday. 

Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said the spate of government officials' red-tagging has become “disturbing” as he backed legislation to criminalize the practice of linking personalities to communist groups.

“Crematorium operators should waste no time in assessing their compliance to environmental regulations following these incidents,” said Thony Dizon, chemical safety campaigner of the EcoWaste Coalition.

The shipment landed at Ninoy Aquino International Airport at 7:05 a.m. through a Cebu Pacific flight.