“From the video we have seen, all of the minimum health standards and BIDA behaviors were violated by the participants. We will get to the bottom of the incident and determine who are those responsible,” said Malaya.

The president's pronouncement came as authorities confirmed there was now local transmission of the variant in the Philippines. 

A son of a leader of the Moro National Liberation Front was killed in a gun attack in Datu Odin Sinsuat town on Tuesday.

Twenty-nine people, including three crewmembers of a passenger boat, were rescued when the vessel capsized off the coast of Barangay Doña Helene in Socorro, Surigao del Norte.

Six persons were arrested during a raid on a suspected drug den in Port Area, Manila that yielded P95,200 worth of shabu on Tuesday night.

The Quezon City government has allotted its first supply of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine to senior citizens.

The Department of Health has detected one case of the Delta variant of COVID-19 in Malabon, Mayor Antolin Oreta III said yesterday.

Two policemen tagged in the killing of two activists caught spray-painting a bridge with anti-government slogans in Guinobatan, Albay on Monday have been relieved from their posts.

Two cases of the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19 have been recorded in Pampanga.

The P1.46-billion Estrella-Pantaleon Bridge connecting the city of Mandaluyong to the central business district of Makati will finally open to motorists this week, Department of Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar announced yesterday.