The government’s coronavirus task force has approved special commercial flights to fly back to the Philippines stranded Filipinos from countries currently under travel ban.

The Department of Health reported Friday 5,881 more people contracted the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases of the respiratory disease in the country to 1,461,455.

The Partido Demokratiko Pilipino – Lakas ng Bayan led by Senator Manny Pacquiao has pulled the plug on its vice chairman, Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi, and two other officials for supposedly “showing allegiance” to a different political party.

Inoculation rate among senior citizens remains low, with only 10.41% or over 861,560 million completing their vaccination.

The 2020-2021 Bar examinations will be held in at least 16 testing sites across the country — a historic move by the Supreme Court — and more may be added soon, the Supreme Court said Friday.

The policy will be implemented only in GCQ and MGCQ area, expect for places that are under heightened restrictions, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said.

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines has launched an emergency fund for media workers, in honor of their former chairperson Nonoy Espina.

The flight carrying 1,124,100 jabs arrived at the Villamor Airbase in Pasay past 9 p.m.

The World Bank has apologized over a report on the Philippine education system that it said was released before the Department of Education "had enough chance to provide inputs."

Caloocan Bishop Virgilio David a critic of President Duterte in the Catholic Church was elected yesterday as president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines.