COVID-19 tests in the country have mostly been conducted using throat and nose swabs.

SC in a January 19 order, made public only on Friday, denied Calida’s motion and instead ordered that the oral arguments proceed on February 2.

(Updated 5:14 p.m.) The latest figures showed that of the total cases, 35,048 or 6.7% are active.

Callamard said the preliminary examination into the alleged extrajudicial killings in the government’s anti-drug crackdown should proceed to the next stage if the ICC prosecutor will act on the “basis of principles only rather than tactical consi...

Leonen said: “Killing somebody is not a debate, killing somebody is not a retort, it is not an argument."

This, after the more contagious COVID-19 variant was not detected among her close contacts in Cagayan province and in Metro Manila.

The Philippine government’s review of “drug war” operations that resulted in deaths must go beyond police officers who have killed and look into how they were emboldened to do so, UN special rapporteur Agnes Callamard said.

Metro Manila will spend yet another month under general community quarantine, Malacañang announced Friday.

The Bangsamoro government is in talks with the Abu Sayyaf for the extremist group to return to the fold of the law, its chief minister said.

Contact tracing czar Benjamin Magalong tendered his resignation after drawing flak for attending a celebrity birthday party where guests flouted quarantine rules but he will not be permitted to vacate the position, Malacañang said.