The coronavirus pandemic has pushed nearly 320,000 overseas Filipino workers to return to the country, data from the labor department showed.

The country's labor secretary on Sunday said more health workers may be allowed to leave for abroad should the coronavirus situation at home improves, following yesterday's lifting of the deployment halt that was ordered due to the pandemic.

It has been 250 days since the initial enhanced community quarantine was hoisted over Metro Manila, and the Philippines is still under the world's longest quarantine. 

Coronavirus cases among cops have climbed to 7,817 to date, latest data from the Philippine National Police showed. 

There should be no repercussions for the students calling for an academic strike, more than 700 graduates of the Ateneo de Manila University said