Policemen have captured the male inmate from the South Cotabato provincial jail who escaped on Sunday from a COVID-19 quarantine facility here.

Around 38 kilos of shabu with an estimated street value of P258.4 million were confiscated yesterday by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency from a Chinese man during a sting in Malate, Manila.

Two persons died in separate vehicular accidents in Isabela and Ilocos Sur on Sunday.

Four New People’s Army guerrillas and their three supporters have surrendered in Catanauan, Quezon, the Philippine Army announced yesterday.

The alleged mastermind in the recent bus attacks in M’lang, North Cotabato was arrested in this city yesterday.

Five municipalities and a city in Batangas have been declared free from African swine fever, the Department of Agriculture reported yesterday.

More hospital beds for COVID patients are still needed in the Visayas and Mindanao, where cases continue to rise, an official of the Department of Health said yesterday.

Bishop Gerardo Alminaza of San Carlos City, Negros Occidental became the 11th prelate to test positive for COVID.

Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año has asked the National Bureau of Investigation to investigate the police anti-drug operation that left a 16-year-old boy and his companion dead in Biñan, Laguna.

Malacañang has declared June 24 a special non-working holiday in Manila.