The Philippine National Police is revitalizing its Task Force against Illegal Recruitment as it intensifies its crackdown on human trafficking amid the pandemic, the agency said on Friday.

The new cases on Friday, September 3, pushed the country's total to 2,040,568.

Filipino Nurses United said the budget allocated to building a memorial wall—pegged between P2 to 5 million—is better spent on the needs of health workers.

The Bureau of Immigration on Friday said they will deploy new immigration officers to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport to augment the workforce at the country’s main gateway.

PNP chief Eleazar on Friday said he ordered the Anti-Cybercrime Group to step up its campaign against the selling of fake entry permits to foreigners and other falsified documents related to the country's pandemic response. 

"The use of Moderna vaccine will go on at this time," the FDA said on Friday. "There is no reason to stop it."

Philippine drug regulators on Friday cleared Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents aged 12 to 15 years old. 

Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said on Friday that he will bring up the issue of the Department of Health’s supposed purchase of overpriced ambulance in next Senate hearings.

The shipment containing 188,370 was the latest donation from the COVAX facility.

Out of the more than 48,000 companies inspected, around 4,700 firms reported they have employees who got infected with COVID-19 as of July, according to the Department of Labor and Employment.