Local health authorities on Saturday recorded 6,831 additional COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections in the Philippines to 1,178,217.

The Department of Health said opening round-the-clock vaccination sites is not yet among its priorities as it would rather see first if opening large vaccination centers would speed up the sluggish rollout of shots.

The Department of Health admitted that people being picky with vaccine brands is fueling vaccine hesitancy which contributes to the slow rollout of coronavirus jabs in the country.

The country's top cop on Saturday said he ordered the Quezon City Police District to form a Special Investigation Task Group to solve the murder of a transgender man. 

After a long postponement, the Philippines and China on Friday resumed bilateral talks on the South China Sea amid growing tensions over the critical waterway. 

The Office of the Solicitor General has asked the University of the Philippines’ highest governing body to allow the release of Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen’s wealth declarations from his time as a faculty member of the state uni...

A magnitude 5.2 quake on Saturday hit waters off Davao Occidental province, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. 

The Department of Health is investigating reports that one of the first four cases of the Indian variant of COVID-19 detected in Cyprus is a traveler who came from the Philippines.

Andrew Gotianun Jr., the eldest son and namesake of the late patriarch of the family behind Filinvest Development Corp. , died yesterday. He was 69.

Deputy Speaker and 1-Pacman party-list Rep. Mikee Romero yesterday urged the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to open vaccination centers around the clock to accelerate vaccine rollout and achieve herd immun...