Friday’s tally surpassed the highest single-day rise last year: 6,958 cases on August 10.

The Supreme Court will tackle on Tuesday the request of the University of the Philippines College of Law faculty to create a special committee for the protection of lawyers.

FDA Director General Eric Domingo said Sinovac and its local distributor need to present evidence to the agency that senior citizens can receive its CoronaVac vaccines before the Emergency Use Authorization for it can be revised to cover people aged ...

A United Nations expert has called on Philippine lawmakers to prioritize the passage of a measure for the protection of human rights defenders, amid rising attacks and killings.

Amid an alarming spike in coronavirus cases, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases is tightening restrictions on non-essential activities in areas under general community quarantine until next month.

President Rodrigo Duterte approved Friday the recommendation to use all available doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to be given as the first dose to frontline healthcare workers.

Majority of Filipinos believe that publishing anything critical of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte is dangerous, a newly released survey showed.

A senator on Friday said presidential spokesman Harry Roque and Gen. Debold Sinas, national police chief, should face penalties if investigations show that they violated health protocols.

(Updated 11:21 a.m.) Sputnik V is the fourth COVID-19 jab to get emergency use authorization in the country, following the approvals given to the vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca and Sinovac Biotech.

The Philippines has secured 20 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine in a tripartite deal with the United States biotech company and the private sector.