July 29 – The Department of Agriculture by way of the Bureau of Animal Industry (DA-BAI) confirmed the detection of the avian influenza A(H5N6) virus in an egg-producing farm in San Luis, Pampanga. The Department of Agriculture (DA) confirmed studies that fowl flu or the H5N6 avian flu was detected in Jaen, Nueva Ecija. The Nueva Ecija Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 88 found Ma. June 15 – The Manila Regional Trial Court docket Branch 46 convicts Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and former researcher-author Reynaldo Santos Jr., of cyber libel over a 2012 article that linked a businessman to alleged illegal activities. March 25 – President Duterte signs the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act of 2020 (Republic Act No. 11469), a measure that gives him extra powers to strengthen government’s response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic after Congress urgently deliberated and handed the measure inside a day. July 3 – President Duterte indicators the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 (Republic Act No. 11479), a measure that giving the government extra powers to act towards individuals or groups falling under what critics say is a harmful and imprecise definition of terrorism.
↑ “Ambo makes landfall over Jap Samar as Philippines reels from COVID pandemic”. August 6 – The government formally launched the One Hospital Command system which goals to improve the referral system and interoperability of public and personal health care amenities catering to COVID-19 patients within the nation. President Duterte indicators Executive Order No. 106, that prohibits vaping in public and prohibited the sale and manufacture of unregistered e-cigarettes due to their potential health dangers. February 24 – The Senate public companies committee begins its listening to on the problems surrounding the franchise renewal of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation. August four – The Senate Committee of the whole begins its hearing on the alleged irregularities and recent controversies hounding state-run Philippine Medical insurance Corporation (PhilHealth). President Duterte directed the Philippine Medical health insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to make the payment of premiums voluntary for overseas Filipino workers in light of opposition in opposition to premium price increases. On September 16, President Duterte indicators Proclamation No. 1021, that extends until September 12, 2021, the state of calamity within the country because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
↑ “Document: U.N. Human Rights report on killings, abuses in PH”. ↑ “Famend poet Rogelio Mangahas has passed away at 79”. GMA News. February 19 – Former official of BuCor Fredric Anthony Santos was shot useless in Muntinlupa. Wesley Barayuga, the board secretary of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), was shot lifeless in Mandaluyong. March 3 – Ombudsman Samuel Martires filed graft and oblique bribery expenses against former Nayong Pilipino Foundation, Inc. (NPFI) chairman of the board Patricia Ocampo-Desiongco and 5 other ex-NPFI officials for accepting free transportation to and accommodation in Jeju Island, South Korea from a personal firm throughout negotiations on a lease contract involving the identical firm. June 5 – Former Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) chairman Camilo Sabio was arrested by the NBI in his home in Quezon City over the execution of judgment in one of the criminal cases towards him pending earlier than the Sandiganbayan. February 18 – Former Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) chairman and New People’s Army (NPA) commander Rodolfo Salas was arrested in Angeles City.
February 3 – A state of calamity is declared by the provincial government of Davao Occidental, due to the African Swine Fever outbreak, a first for the Davao Area. July 17 – President Duterte signs Republic Act No. 11480, which allows the president to move or reschedule the beginning of the varsity yr in an event of a state of emergency or state of calamity. On September 22, Joshua Paul Capiral, a NBI official was arrested in an entrapment operation for allegedly accepting bribes from Bureau of Immigration personnel involved in the mentioned scheme. February 6 – Binibining Pilipinas released the official record of the forty candidates for the 2020 pageant. February 11 – The Philippines announced that it will terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement with the U.S. February 5 – The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee really useful the filing of criminal charges against individuals concerned in the nice Conduct Time Allowance controversy, together with the near-release of former Calauan, Laguna, mayor Antonio Sanchez, the mastermind within the June 1993 rape and murder of UPLB students Eileen Sarmenta and Allan Gomez.