The Philippines is set to receive on Monday its first doses of British-Swedish drugmaker’s AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine developed with the University of Oxford, Malacañang confirmed to Philstar.com.

"The DOT deems the simplification of requirements as vital in encouraging domestic travel and helping in the speedy recovery of Philippine tourism."

(Updated 4:17 p.m.) The Department of Health reported Saturday 2,921 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of cases of the infectious respiratory disease to 574,247.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has recorded more volcanic quakes in the past 24 hours.

Doctors from the Philippine General Hospital are calling for further assessment of the coronavirus vaccine manufactured by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd. before it is given to healthcare workers.

The government’s pandemic task force has eased travel requirements in adopting uniform rules for travelers.

Metro Manila will be spending another month under general community quarantine along with eight other areas, Malacañang announced.

The House of Representatives aims to pass the measure seeking to amend restrictive economic provisions in the 1987 Constitution by March 24, a leader of the chamber said yesterday.

Fourteen priority measures, including those in support of economic recovery from the pandemic, will be prioritized for passage before the end of the Duterte administration, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said yesterday.

The Philippine and Australia have reaffirmed their commitment to continue defense cooperation between them, believing that territorial issues and concerns in the Indo-Pacific region including the West Philippine Sea must not be about power and compet...