NTC Deputy Commissioner Edgardo Cabarios said this might be a violation of the Radio Control Law as the emergency alerts might have come from illegal operations of portable cellsites, according to a report from GMA News.

Wednesday's new cases pushed the Philippines' total COVID count to 2,622,917.

De Guzman, who chairs Bukluran ng Masang Pilipino, is the standard bearer of Partido Lakas ng Masa for next year’s polls.

Villanueva, who sought and won his first Senate seat as part of the Daang Matuwid coalition in 2016, will bid for reelection as an independent candidate. 

Addressing the media after he filed his candidacy, Former Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales said it is time to change the “rotten” politics he said is prevailing in the country.

The three-term mayor of the country's most populous city will make his first bid for a national position. He was a local chief executive from 2010 and won reelections in 2013 and 2016. 

Undersecretary Nepomuceno Malaluan said the date coincides with the start of the second quarter of the ongoing academic year. 

Sen. Panfilo Lacson and Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday filed their candidacies for president and vice president before the Commission on Elections.

Former Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has formalized his bid to join vie for the highest seat in the land for the 2022 national elections.

Zubiri said he is running as an independent bet, but has been adopted by the slate of Senate President Vicente Sotto III and Sen. Panfilo Lacson.