Some 50 members of a local terror group showed force in Datu Paglas town early Saturday, provoking a brief clash with state security forces that sent villagers running for their lives.

Rep. Aleta Suarez (Quezon) announced that she tested positive for coronavirus just days after her husband, Quezon Gov. Danilo Suarez, was also diagnosed to have contracted the pathogen.

Around 12,000 public school students from 6,000 households in San Juan will now have fast and reliable internet connection for their blended distance learning.

The COVID-19 beds in the lone public hospital in Mandalyong City is 69 percent occupied, Mayor Carmelita Abalos said yesterday.

A local government employee in Pagadian, Zamboanga del Sur, who won the jackpot worth P298.7 million in the 6/55 Grand Lotto drawn on March 27, has claimed his prize.

Baguio and San Fernando in La Union agreed yesterday to open a so-called ”Summit and Sea Travel Experience Tourism Bubble.”

Three drug suspects were killed in a drug sting in Nueva Ecija and another in Bulacan yesterday.

Three towns in Ilocos Sur are under stricter modified enhanced community quarantine or MECQ until May 19.

The Quezon City government has set up feeding stations in day care centers in the city to provide healthy meals to poor families during the pandemic.

A 47-year-old policeman assigned in Maguidanao has died from complications due to COVID-19.