Philippines coronavirus

The Philippine president is also seeking emergency powers and urging the return of the death penalty for drug crimes.

The Philippines will send police door-to-door to usher COVID-19 patients with mild or no symptoms into government quarantine facilities.

With an ongoing pandemic and economic turmoil, many in the Philippines were enraged that the government prioritized passing an anti-terror law.

Finding the balance between public health and reviving the economy has been fraught with dilemmas.

6 jeepney drivers were arrested last week and subsequently released on bail for protesting lost wages during the coronavirus lockdown.

Experts fear the Philippine president is testing the waters for a constitutionally viable declaration of nationwide martial law.

Filipinos around the world are contending with the impact of COVID-19.

The COVID-19 crisis has revealed long-existing cracks in the Philippines’ systems and institutions.

Manila will remain under lockdown, but nationwide restrictions will be modified in a byzantine three-tiered plan to ease restrictions in many areas and restart the Philippine economy.

The Duterte administration’s COVID-19 response marries incompetence with militarism.

Rights groups and journalists have flagged physical abuse by police and unreported prison deaths as the Philippine government orders all quarantine violators to be arrested.

UN warnings unheeded amid arrests, death threats, and muzzling the press.