President Rodrigo Duterte's decision to expand the country’s travel ban to visitors from mainland China and its administrative regions is a "very belated response" to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, the Gabriela Women’s Party-list said.
A private school has denied that the weapon brought by one of its male students, which caused the accidental firing and wounding of another female student, was used as a prop for a school activity.
Environment Sec. Roy Cimatu has welcomed the plan of this city’s local government to allow neighboring towns to use its sanitary landfill for a fee.
The Council of Bishops of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) demanded a public apology from the Regional Peace and Order Council of Region 11 (RPOC-11) for “besmirching the integrity” of the Christian denomination, and called for the urgent withdrawal of its “arbitrary resolution” ordering the shutdown of the UCCP-Haran Center here.
The City Health Office (CHO) has dismissed the rumor that there are already patients with confirmed cases of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in this city.