The Department of Health on Tuesday recorded another 4,487 COVID-19 infections, bringing the national caseload to 1,154,388.

Senate President Tito Sotto said senators are among the 27% who are still not vaccinated due to a previous agreement that they would go last.

There is an upward trend in COVID-19 infections in Visayas and Mindanao, said Alethea de Guzman, director of the DOH Epidemiology Bureau.

An umbrella group of child rights advocates on Tuesday called on the Senate to expedite proceedings for bills that seek to raise the age determining statutory rape from below 12 years to below 16 years. 

Deputy Speaker Henry Oaminal (Misamis Occidental) said he tested positive for COVID-19 after experiencing malaise and fever.

CHED Chairman Prospero de Vera III said the IATF will meet on the matter as other countries gear up too on vaccinating their students.

The Bureau of Immigration uncovered a new human trafficking scheme that involves fake itineraries for aspiring Overseas Filipino Workers, only to be later illegally transported to United Arab Emirates.

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Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez recommended to President Rodrigo Duterte to expand the vaccine rollout to frontline workers and the poor by the last week of May in a bid to speed up the government’s sluggish vaccination campaign against COVID-19.

"The supply we need to sustain 500,000 jabs per day is...15 million per month," Galvez said in a presentation delivered in Filipino.