The hotel in Makati City implicated in the death of flight attendant Christine Dacera on Friday responded to the show cause order issued by the Department of Tourism to address allegations that it violated quarantine facility rules.

The fatality count hit 9,699 with 146 more patients succumbing to the respiratory illness.

“Tomorrow, we will sign a tripartite agreement for more or less 20 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine. We are not lagging behind,” said Carlito Galvez Jr, a former military general in charge of the government’s vaccination procurement effort.

The overseas Filipina worker in Hong Kong who contracted the new variant of the coronavirus is now in stable condition, a senior health official said Wednesday.

The Makati prosecution office has started its preliminary investigation into the rape with homicide complaint the police filed against eleven known companions of Christine Dacera on the night before she died.

The chairman of the House constitutional amendments committee claimed Wednesday that his panel already constitutes a constituent assembly, even without the participation of the rest of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

(Updated 3:37 p.m.) Sen. Francis Pangilinan is calling on the government to cancel its procurement of 25 million doses of coronavirus vaccines from China's Sinovac after it demonstrated an efficacy of 50% in Brazil, a figure much lower than those ini...

Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta has designated an acting presiding judge in two Sulu regional courts, a day after the Department of Justice confirmed that warrant of arrest has yet to be issued against nine police officers accused of killing four sold...

(Updated 1:41 p.m.) Here's a running list of local governments who have secured vaccine doses for their localities. 

Sen. Richard Gordon on Wednesday said Chinese nationals in the country who have been inoculated with unauthorized coronavirus vaccines can be deported for violating the law.