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Motorists will be given more time to secure radio-frequency identification or RFID stickers for their vehicles after the Department of Transportation moved the start of mandatory implementation of cashless toll collections on expressways from Nov. 2 to Dec. 1.

The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered the six-month preventive suspension of eight ranking officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. over the alleged anomalous implementation of the interim reimbursement mechanism or IRM program.

The Department of Justice has identified the Bureau of Customs and Bureau of Internal Revenue as the government agencies that will be prioritized in the investigation on corrupt practices and irregularities in the government. Three other agencies are also on the priority list.

A tropical depression is expected to intensify into a storm as it enters the Philippine area of responsibility today, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said.

Several local government units have appealed to have their quarantine status changed starting Nov. 1, the Department of the Interior and Local Government said yesterday.

The Philippine Red Cross yesterday said the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. has about three days to pay the remaining P.5 billion it owes PRC for COVID-19 testing, a day after it agreed to resume testing services for the government and PhilHealth-covered patients.

Barring “unforeseen circumstances,” President Duterte may be able to sign into law the proposed P4.5-trillion national budget for 2021 before Christmas, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said yesterday.

The Anti-Money Laundering Council has been asked to show results in the implementation of the country’s anti-money laundering law as the Senate works to pass amendments to prevent the Philippines from falling into the Financial Action Task Force gray list.

Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat on Tuesday sought for a price cap on the real-time Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) or the RT-PCR swab confirmatory test and Antigen tests for COVID-19 to boost the reopening of tourism.

Foreign affairs officials on Wednesday said 20 more Filipinos abroad have tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the overall count to now at 11,224.