The disaster risk reduction management councils in General Santos City and in South Cotabato have dispatched emergency responders to the flooded areas.

Philippine National Police chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar on Monday dismissed public perception that policemen are womanizers.

Thirty-nine vehicles of the National Capital Region Police Office were destroyed in a fire that struck the NCRPO impounding area at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City on Monday.

The Philippine General Hospital is looking to resume conducting surgical procedures for indigent patients next week after a fire broke out at the state-owned facility on Sunday.

The Caloocan government yesterday appealed to hundreds of Gubat sa Ciudad resort guests, who still cannot be reached by contact tracers, to undergo self-quarantine.

Five areas in Luzon have recorded the highest computed heat index or the temperature as felt by the human body.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology warned the public yesterday of “elevated unrest” of Taal Volcano, citing the 288 volcanic earthquakes and 300-meter steam-laden plumes that it emitted in the past 24 hours.

Government agents confiscated on Monday around 622 grams of the party drug Ketamine, with an estimated market value of P3.11 million, during an operation in Caloocan City.

Thousands of people swarmed at a vaccination site offering the Pfizer-BioNTech jabs in Manila yesterday, prompting police and the city government to enforce physical distancing protocols to prevent a super spreader event.

The Bureau of Fire Protection deployed yesterday 63 nurses to augment personnel of 12 hospitals managing COVID-19 cases in the National Capital Region, which are in need of additional healthcare workers.