The Marine Exercise 2022 Philippines (MAREX 22 PH) between the Philippines and the United States formally opened on Thursday, aimed at enhancing the capabilities of both sides. MAREX 22 PH is a combined Philippine-US Marine Forces bilateral exercise that aims to develop the two services’ in amphibious operations in support of counter-terrorism, internal security operations, and humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HADR). “It will have simultaneous amphibious operation events in the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ Western Command (Wescom) in Palawan and the Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) joint areas of operation from January 27 to February 2,” said PMC public

An inactive member of the communist terrorist group surrendered to authorities in Barangay Manggitan, Dilasag, this province on Thursday night. Lt. Col. Reandrew P. Rubio, commander of the Philippine Army’s 91st Infantry “Sinagtala” Battalion (91IB), said in an interview on Friday continuous focused military operations led to the surrender of alias Ka Jeffrey, of Casigura town, who has laid low from the Komiteng Probinsiya (Kom-Prob), Cagayan Valley Regional Committee of the New People’s Army (NPA). Rubio said the surrender was facilitated by 1st Lt. Bobby A. Ferrer, commanding officer and Intel Platoon head of 91IB, together with troops from the

The government has required all vaccination sites across the country to submit their list of vaccinated individuals within two days after an inoculation event. In a press briefing on Friday, acting Presidential Spokesperson, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, said the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases adopted this recommendation made by the Sub-Technical Working Group on VaxCertPH under IATF Resolution 159. “All vaccination sites whether public or private are required to submit their data to the Vaccine Information Management System within 48 hours from the vaccination event,” Nograles said. He said all vaccination sites, whether public

The city government on Friday said the more virulent Delta variant of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has remained a threat here even amid the more contagious Omicron. In an interview, Aileen Refuerzo, city information office chief, said “the city government proved that the more virulent variant, the Delta variant, had remained to be a threat in the city, which Mayor Benjamin Magalong had assumed after the city’s Covid-19 deaths rose in the past days amid the surge caused by the less severe Omicron variant.” In the January 25 report of the Philippine Genome Center, she said the breakdown of the