Health authorities on Friday recorded 8,748 additional coronavirus infections, bringing the national caseload to 1,209,154.

About half of the 30 million motorists in the country do not have valid motorcycle registration documents, the top official of the police’s Highway Patrol Group said Friday.

The CHR should take the Dutch ruling as a cue to release its resolution on the inquiry that looked into the responsibility of fossil fuel companies for human rights impacts that aggravate climate change, the organizations stressed. 

“The recommendation to improve and simply the priority group A4 of the COVID-19 immunization program has been approved,” presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said in a briefing.

Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines donated by the US may arrive in the Philippines as early as June, Manila’s envoy to Washington said Friday. 

Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said outbound overseas Filipino workers who will be deployed in the next four months are now part of the A1 group.

Police Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, PNP chief, said this after Valenzuela Mayor Rex Gatchalian on Thursday revealed that a key witness refuted police's claim that a scuffle ensued in the raid that led to the killing in the killing of Edwin Arnigo. 

“A lot of people feel that [Persons Deprived of Liberty] don’t have the rights anymore and therefore it’s okay for them to suffer inside our city jails or any kind of jail or prison system."

Washington-based Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative tracked Philippine patrols in the West Philippine Sea over the past year and noted a "dramatic" increase in activity.

The Senate approved on second reading proposed measures sponsored by Sen. Bong Go, increasing the bed capacities of 13 local hospitals.