Manila residents who are returning home after the holidays would have to head to a quarantine facility to get tested for COVID-19 before they are welcomed back into their respective barangays.

Officials again appealed on Saturday to members of the New People’s Army to return to the fold of law while there is time yet.

Davao City, which has seen a surge of coronavirus infections in recent days, is extending its liquor ban and curfew until the end of January.

A graduating Philippine National Police Academy cadet has been recommended for dismissal for allegedly beating his fellow senior cadet on New Year's eve in Camp Castañeda, Silang, Cavite.

Upon the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, President Duterte has removed Isabela and Iloilo City from the areas under general community quarantine or GCQ for this month.

Criminal charges have been filed against 16 persons arrested in simultaneous police operations in Calinog, Iloilo and Tapaz, Capiz on Wednesday.

The declaration of a community quarantine to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 did not stop law enforcers from carrying out President Duterte’s war on illegal drugs.

Government forces arrested a ranking member of the New People’s Army in Bulacan on Wednesday.

Continuous moderate to heavy rains spawned by the tail-end of a frontal system in the past 24 hours triggered landslides and flooding in Albay, Sorsogon and Camarines Sur, the Office of Civil Defense reported yesterday.

Nine police officers tagged in the shooting that left four Army soldiers dead in Jolo, Sulu in June last year have been dismissed from the service.