Rep. Alfred Vargas (Quezon City), an actor, is among the thousands who recently contracted the virus that causes COVID-19.

The Land Transportation Office has extended by two months the validity of driver’s licenses that will expire in January, February and March this year.

Two policemen were injured when a drunk motorcycle rider hit them as they were manning a checkpoint near the Quiapo Church before dawn yesterday.

The number of areas under granular lockdown in the National Capital Region climbed to 53 yesterday, five days after the region was placed under Alert Level 3 due to a surge in COVID-19 cases.

The COVID-19 quarantine facility of the Philippine National Police at Camp Crame in Quezon City has reached full capacity as COVID-19 cases in the PNP breached 1,000 yesterday.

Two persons died and 15 others were injured when a cargo truck collided with a multicab along the highway at the boundary of Buenavista town in Agusan del Norte and this city the other day.

Three suspected members of a robbery holdup gang were found dead in Negros Occidental while the body of their alleged leader was recovered in this city yesterday.

Six areas in Pangasinan are under the watchlist of the provincial health office after recording an increase in COVID-19 cases.

Ninety-four personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard involved in the transport of relief goods to victims of Typhoon Odette in the Visayas and Mindanao have tested positive for COVID-19.

The Department of Health-Western Visayas office has placed this city under the stricter Alert Level 3 due to increasing COVID-19 cases.