News that Hidilyn Diaz had won the gold in the women’s 55-kg weightlifting category at the Tokyo Olympics spread so rapidly over social media.

Despite setting a stricter community lockdown in the coming weeks, the National Capital Region may still see some 18,000 to 30,000 active cases of COVID-19 by the end of September, the Department of Health said yesterday.

Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula urged yesterday the Catholic faithful to storm the heavens with prayers to stop the spread of COVID-19, amid the threat of the infectious Delta variant.

Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade has ordered the strict implementation of health and safety measures in public transport facilities as he led the pilot COVID-19 vaccination of transport workers at the Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange yesterday.

House leaders renewed yesterday their bid to pass the proposed Bayanihan to Arise as One or Bayanihan 3 law in view of the need to revert to lockdowns due to the more contagious Delta variant of COVID-19.