In 2017, Rodrigo Duterte, who was then the president, signed Executive Order 28, a directive that limited the use of firecrackers to community zones and prohibited certain types of firecrackers.

Most of the injuries were caused by kwitis followed by boga, unknown type of firecrackers, five-star and whistle bomb. The department expects firecracker-related cases to go up until Jan.

The Supreme Court today (January 17) extended the firecracker ban in districts of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana that fall in the ...