Health officials on Tuesday logged 4,516 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country's total to 1,517,903.

"I think the claim that the war on drugs resulted in an increase in the number of abusive cops is baseless and an unfair assumption because the PNP has never tolerated rogues in its ranks. The PNP has its own mechanisms for corrupt cops,” he said i...

The Department of Interior and Local Government on Tuesday urged the government to release more funds for the hiring of additional contact tracers amid the detection of local cases of the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19 in the country. 

"Medyo sigurado po na magkakaroon ng higpitan [sa interzonal travels] ngayon at base po ito sa direktiba ng ating pangulo kagabi," DILG Undersecretary Epimaco Densing said at the Laging Handa briefing Tuesday morning. 

The weather bureau in its 11 a.m. bulletin said Fabian was last seen at 960 km east northeast of extreme northern Luzon. 

This comes hours after President Rodrigo Duterte in a prerecorded address aired Monday night said that the extension of the Visiting Forces Agreement is still "on the table." 

"We have all witnessed what happened in India and we do not want the COVID-19 scandal to happen in our country, especially since there are confirmed cases and there are already deaths in our country due to the Delta variant," said Eleazar in Filipino...

Duterte noted in Filipino that the Chinese navy ship and five Chinese fishing vessels challenged in the area were "easy to get rid of."

"NCR cases are rising and we have three cases of the Delta variant. In fact, the increase is exponential...we're asking the IATF if it's possible to suspend the policy on five-year-olds and above in Metro Manila for now," Abalos said.

Local governments previously tagged the seven as recovered but they are now considered active cases again.