A Filipina caregiver in Canada who contracted a chronic kidney disease could be sent home to the Philippines over expensive dialysis costs that exceeds what can be shouldered in the country's healthcare system.

“We are infusing new blood into the command structure to fill the void created by the retirement of some senior officials and ensure continuity of command,” Sinas said.  

Daily cases continue to number in the thousands. Just the day before, the department recorded 2,109 COVID-19 cases. 

“Coronavirus cases in the House have been brought down quite remarkably but because of the new strain, we cannot be complacent,” Mendoza said.

Health workers fighting the pandemic in the country for nearly a year now have lamented the Duterte administration's poor response to their needs, describing their condition as deplorable.

"It is already illegal to enter our territory, but they're also robbing us of our natural resources. And yet they still found it in themselves to pass a law against what they consider to be foreigners in the claimed territory in the West Philippine...

Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday welcomed contact tracing czar Benjamin Magalong's move to step down after attending a celebrity birthday party where guests were showed not following quarantine protocols, saying his response was only fitting for...

The health department on Saturday said it has not detected the new coronavirus variant first seen in the United Kingdom in the latest batch of samples to undergo sequencing.

The latest updates on the spread of the novel coronavirus in the Philippines and general community quarantine of economic center of Metro Manila and other areas across the country.

Continuing his initiative to help Filipinos affected by calamities and other crisis situations, Sen. Bong Go personally went to Sorsogon City to provide assistance to 2,128 victims of Typhoon Tisoy.