The Supreme Court has allowed lower courts nationwide to conduct fully remote videoconferencing hearings to not delay trial proceedings, amid the threat of the novel coronavirus.

“CHR has already heeded COA’s observation and actions from relevant CHR offices have already been carried out,” commission spokesperson Jacqueline De Guia said.

Local health authorities on Tuesday recorded 5,177 more COVID-19 infections, bringing the national caseload to 1,235,467.

The Philippine National Police will only give the Department of Justice access to select administrative cases on “drug war” operations after President Rodrigo Duterte said the data may involve national security issues.

Año also said that at least 8 local government units will be returning to the Bureau of Treasury more than P26 million in excess funds that were left unused. 

A civic leader from Marawi disputed Tuesday the government’s claim that 65% of the rehabilitation of the city once besieged by Islamist militants is complete.

The agency in its latest bulletin said Dante was last seen at 220 kilometers east northeast of Maasin City in Southern Leyte.

The COVAX facility will deliver over 2 million COVID-19 shots developed by Pfizer-BioNtech to the Philippines on June 11, vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. announced Tuesday. 

"This is disgusting and unacceptable because the police should be the ones protecting our countrymen, and not the criminals against them," said Eleazar.

In a meeting aired Monday evening, Duterte said World Health Organization-led program has helped the country “a lot” in its vaccination drive.