The narrative that the lack of discipline among Filipinos caused the surge in cases is one that has already been disproven by data and surveys, though it continues to persist among government officials today. 

The five BIFF gunmen, initially identified only as Anding, Said, Bitol, Musib and Habib, were killed in an encounter with soldiers of the Army's 601st Infantry Brigade.

The former head of the Southern Police District in the National Capital Region Police Office, Brig. Gen. Eliseo Cruz, assumed his new post as director of the Calabarzon police on Monday.

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck Davao Occidental yesterday, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.

A dump truck driven by a 57-year-old man who suffered a heart attack plowed into people waiting to receive their financial assistance from the city government in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan yesterday, leaving nine persons injured.

Detained Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas vice chairman Joseph Canlas died of complications due to COVID-19 yesterday morning.

Citing the more than P100 billion in losses to the local hog sector and related industries, President Duterte has placed the entire country under a state of calamity due to the outbreak of African swine fever

The Manila Police District has set up a police outpost at Baseco beach to prevent people from swimming in Manila Bay, which is prohibited under the prevailing modified enhanced community quarantine.

Girls as young as 13 are being coerced into having sex in exchange for bags of rice since the pandemic started, a representative of the United Nations Population Fund said during a Senate hearing yesterday.

The Quezon City government has started the distribution of 1.2 million face masks and 300,000 face shields to indigent residents following President Duterte’s directive to detain those caught without or improperly wearing face masks.