Stories on deteriorating jail conditions, low student enrollment, the crackdown on activists and vaccine hesitancy won big at the 2021 Chit Estella Student Journalism Awards. 

Health authorities on Saturday reported 6,979 additional COVID-19 infections, bringing the national caseload to 1,094,849.

Two million more doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine from the World Health Organization-led COVAX facility arrived Saturday afternoon in the Philippines, bringing the total number of vaccine doses in the country to around 7.5 million.

Ariel Lanada, a nurse at Oxford University Hospitals, is the joint winner of the Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Nurse of the Year at the National BAME Health and Care Awards. 

The government’s pandemic task force has allowed point-to-point air travel from the so-called “NCR Plus” area for leisure purposes in a bid to revive economic activity in tourist destinations that took a major blow due to the pandemic.

There is a need to create a government agency that will assume the responsibility of protecting the lives of millions of Filipinos by monitoring, tracking, responding to and mitigating outbreaks of infectious diseases and other public health emergenc...

Rates of Manila Electric Co. slightly rose this month due to higher generation and transmission charges, and as it completed the refund of over-recovery in pass-through charges.

To achieve herd immunity against COVID-19 by yearend, the government needs P110 billion to procure more vaccines until 2022, set up more inoculation centers and cut red tape in the Food and Drug Administration, a senator said yesterday.

The proposed Bayanihan 3 law in the House of Representatives, meant to provide cash aid or ayuda for all Filipinos, will include a P54.6-billion fund for retired soldiers, a proponent revealed yesterday.

The country’s trade of goods jumped in March from February, with both imports and exports posting significant upticks following the slight reopening of the economy.