Latest data showed that 18.4% of 24,678 COVID-19 ward beds across the country were occupied. The occupancy rate of 3,138 ICU beds nationwide was at 25.7%.

Thirteen persons were arrested for allegedly engaging in illegal gambling in Gapan City, Nueva Ecija on Sunday.

For the first time, the Department of Agrarian Reform distributed electronic land titles or e-titles to agrarian reform beneficiaries in Western Visayas.

Two persons died while another was hospitalized after they drowned in a river in Naic, Cavite on Sunday night.

The Philippine National Police has named Lt. Gen. Rhodel Sermonia as the PNP’s second highest ranking official.

A Quezon City court has dismissed the complaint for illegal possession of firearms filed by police against Dennise Velasco, who was among the seven persons arrested during Human Rights Day in 2020.

Graft charges have been filed before the Office of the Ombudsman against the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources director and two other BFAR officials over the allegedly anomalous awarding of a P2-billion contract for Vessel Monitoring System.

The Office of the Solicitor General yesterday filed a petition before the Supreme Court questioning the memorandum of agreement that the Commission on Elections entered into with news website Rappler.

The Sandiganbayan has sentenced former mayor Melquiades Gaite of Baao, Camarines Sur to six to 10 years in prison in connection with an allegedly anomalous lease contract for the Baao Public Market.

Two girls aged 15 and 12, who were being featured in online sexual exploitation materials, have been rescued in Tarlac, authorities reported yesterday.