After launching the country’s 102nd Malasakit Center last Thursday, Sen. Bong Go personally met and spoke with residents of Angeles City in Pampanga, whose lives and livelihoods have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A policeman was snatched by unidentified armed men in Norzagaray town on Friday.

Three persons, two of them barangay captains, were killed in a gun attack in Barangay Balugo in Tarangnan, Samar on Wednesday.

A couple died and two others were seriously injured when their van plunged into a 180-meter ravine in Barangay Balinsiago Sur, Pasil, Kalinga on Friday.

Sen. Leila de Lima expressed her opposition to a House of Representatives bill providing legal presumptions in drug-related offenses, which she said essentially presumes the guilt of drug suspects.

At least 430 or only 8.8 percent of the 4,890 medical frontliners in Marikina City have been inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines almost a week after the national government’s vaccine rollout, Mayor Marcelino Teodoro said on Friday.

The city government of San Juan yesterday kicked off its COVID-19 vaccination program using the vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech of China.

A sanitary landfill in Pangasinan has been closed.

Three drug suspects were killed in anti-narcotics operations in Ilocos Norte and Pangasinan on Friday.

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