Belgium-based firm Janssen Pharmaceutica and Chinese drugmakers Sinovac Biotech and Clover Biopharmaceuticals have secured approval from the country's Food and Drug Administration to conduct clinical trials of their COVID-19 shots in the country.

Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Friday said he will do everything he can to persuade President Rodrigo Duterte to receive his coronavirus jab in public to boost people's confidence in vaccines following news that the chief executive plans to...

The number of active cases in the country currently stands at 32,031 or 6.3% of the total.

The government’s coronavirus task force has eased travel restrictions for some foreign nationals amid the threat of the new and more transmissible coronavirus variant.

A former adviser to the COVID-19 task force questioned its decision to ease age-based restrictions in some areas on account of the economy, calling such logic counterintuitive.

The index case, a 29-year-old real estate agent, arrived in the Philippines on January 7 from a business trip in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The Department of Health has sought the help of the National Bureau of Investigation in locating two persons who had contact with the man that tested positive on the new and more infectious coronavirus variant.

The government’s coronavirus task force has approved the conduct of licensure exams from January to March 2021, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said Friday.

Travelers arriving from jurisdictions covered by travel restrictions will be tested once they arrive in the Philippines. They will be quarantined until they receive the result of a second COVID-19 test that they will take on the fifth day after th...

The Senate Committee of the Whole will resume its probe on the government's inoculation program against COVID-19 Friday amid heightened tension between senators and Cabinet officials over the procurement of a Chinese-made vaccine.