The House of Representatives will be conducting its own probe into the government’s COVID-19 vaccination plan, with the chamber’s health committee scheduling a hearing on the matter next Monday.

Two senators on Thursday said top officials should focus on acquiring vaccines from Pfizer instead of manufacturers whose jabs have not yet received regulatory approval in the country.

“Whole genome sequencing was done and it showed the UK variant was not detected among all of the contacts of this Hong Kong case,” said Vergeire, who also heads the technical working group on coronavirus variants.

Despite the continuous rise in COVID-19 infections, President Rodrigo Duterte declared Thursday that national recovery is "within sight" as vaccines are expected to arrive in the Philippines soon because of the efforts of the national government, l...

Of the total, 25,614 or 5.2% are active cases or those who are still undergoing treatment and quarantine.

House political leaders said they have agreed that they will only touch economic provisions in the Constitution, despite political observers saying that tinkering with the fundamental law opens it to all possible amendments and revisions, including t...

This is the second deal that the government and private firms signed with AstraZeneca.

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(Updated 2:03 p.m.) Sinovac Biotech Ltd. applied Wednesday for emergency use approval of its coronavirus vaccine, but the Food and Drug Administration said that it needs to submit additional requirements.

(Updated) The Philippines approved Thursday the coronavirus vaccine of Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech SE for emergency use, making it the first COVID-19 jab to get the authorization needed for it to be rolled out by the government in its...