(PNA photo by Lloyd Caliwan) MANILA - The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday recommended that more or less 100 municipalities and 14 cities be placed under the red category for the May 9 elections. "In the last meeting, the red areas all over the country were 100 municipalities and 14 cities. Ngayon, titingnan namin yung update meron tayong color coded, meron tayong green, wala tayong magiging problema sa green areas. Yung yellow and orange binabantayan natin (Now we will look at the update we have color-coded, we have green, we will not have a problem with green areas. We continue monitoring the yellow and orange) but we focus on the red colored areas ito yung aming huling datos (this is our latest data) is 100 municipalities and 14 cities," PNP chief Gen. Dionardo Carlos said in a press conference in Camp Crame. Carlos said he has issued marching orders to each unit commander to focus on the areas that will be placed under the red category to suppress any election-r
(File photo) MANILA - The Philippine National Police (PNP) continues to see a spike in coronavirus infections among its ranks. In its Covid-19 bulletin released Monday, the PNP Health Service said 436 new cases raised the active case tally to 1,884 out of a total of 43,603 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic. "Thankfully, many of the Covid cases among our police personnel developed mild symptoms, which will only need home or facility isolation," PNP Chief Gen. Dionardo Carlos said in a statement. Another five new recoveries, meanwhile, brought the active cases to 41,954 while the death toll stands at 125. Carlos assured that the surge in infections will not affect the operations of the police force. "We have our deployment strategy that in case a member of the police unit will be isolated, those who are not in contact with him/her will take over. Of course, swab testing is a regular thing for us," said Carlos, who also tested positive for Covid-19. He sa