"These countered the notion that the poor are lazy and unproductive and highlighted the residents’ self-reliance and self-sufficient practices," Save San Roque wrote.

"If [the healthcare utilization rate] reaches 70%, then we may go into Alert Level 4," Interior Undersecretary Epimaco Densing III said in Filipino

The Philippine Coast Guard has deployed swabbers to different government agencies and offices experiencing a shortage of personnel conducting reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction or RT-PCR tests.

A popular amusement park in Pasay City has decided to postpone its scheduled reopening next week due to a spike in COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila.

Two persons were arrested in Caloocan and Navotas for violating the nationwide gun ban that started yesterday, the first day of the election period.

The campaign headquarters of presidential candidate former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and his running mate Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio in Mandaluyong will be closed for another week.

More than 100 officials and employees of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines have tested positive for COVID-19 after undergoing antigen tests.

Coronavirus infections in this city driven by the Omicron variant are projected to reach 250 to 280 daily in a worst-case scenario.

A man tagged in the killing of a government prosecutor in Cavite on New Year’s Day has been arrested, the Philippine National Police said yesterday.

A day before the start of the election period, the Philippine National Police reshuffled four provincial police directors in Western Visayas and 10 police chiefs in Negros Occidental.