Today's number is the Philippines' new record-high since the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020.

Police Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, chief of the PNP, told dzBB that some 13,000 on average were being apprehended in the capital region per day. 

Prosecutors and auditors to serve as deputy ombudsmen may be deployed to government agencies this month, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said.

On National Heroes’ Day, President Rodrigo Duterte paid tribute to a “new breed of heroes” that stand ready in the country’s fight against the pandemic.

The Alliance of Concerned Teachers said the government's recognition of COVID-19 frontliners as "modern day heroes" would only be lip service if it fails to improve their working conditions. 

An “overwhelming” number of victims back the International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor’s request for a full investigation into President Rodrigo Duterte and his men’s “war on drugs,” an initial report by the ICC Registry said.

As overworked and underpaid medical frontliners repeatedly threaten to stage mass protests, the national government has allocated P20.8 billion in the 2022 budget for purposes of hiring more health personnel amid the pandemic.

It’s all systems go for the long awaited World Health Organization Solidarity Vaccine Trials for three candidate COVID-19 vaccines in the country.

Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio’s party, Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP), does not see the possibility of her running for president in tandem with Sen. Bong Go because “it does not make political sense.”

"While the total Alpha and Beta variant cases remain the highest in the country, there is a continuous and increasing detection of the Delta variant in the communities," the statement read.