Sagada Mayor James Pooten ordered flags to be flown at half mast from Tuesday for Bawayan, who hails from the town.

The Medical City on Monday night announced that its COVID-19 floors, Emergency Room and Intensive Care Units hit full capacity amid a sharp increase in new coronavirus cases.

A low-pressure area that entered the Philippine area of responsibility on Sunday afternoon is expected to bring rain over Bicol, Mindanao and the Visayas, state weather forecasters said yesterday.

Authorities apprehended 352 violators on the the first day of the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine in this province on Sunday.

Two US religious missionaries died in a fire that razed their apartment in this city before dawn on Sunday.

The city government of Zamboanga turned away 10 passengers who arrived on commercial flights from Manila for presenting fake reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction or RT-PCR test results.

As the COVID death toll climbed to 50 this month, the city government of Cebu is looking for a site that will be turned into a mass gave for the fatalities.

Two officers and two crewmembers of a fishing boat died of suffocation as they were cleaning the storage room of their vessel that was sailing in the waters off Zamboanga City, authorities reported yesterday.

The Pasig government has earmarked P88.2 million for food packs to be distributed to over 200,000 families who would not be receiving cash aid from the national government, Mayor Vico Sotto announced yesterday.

The cities of Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas and Valenzuela have received an estimated P2.39 billion in cash aid to be given to residents affected by the enhanced community quarantine in Metro Manila.