The Department of Health on Saturday recorded 7,443 additional COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 1,216,582.

The Department of Health announced Saturday that health authorities have detected a total of 242 new cases of various coronavirus variants classified as variants of concern.

The Department of Health said some 50,000 doses of Sputnik V will arrive in the Philippines on Sunday and will be deployed to populous areas seeing an increase in infections. 

The Philippines is resuming sending workers to Saudi Arabia after it assured Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III that foreign employers will shoulder the costs of COVID-19 protocols, including the testing and quarantine of Filipino workers.

The Department of Foreign Affairs said it fired a protest Friday "against the incessant deployment, prolonged presence, and illegal activities of Chinese maritime assets and fishing vessels in the vicinity of the Pag-asa islands." 

Police killed in an alleged shootout the husband of a peace consultant for the National Democratic Front of the Philippines who was designated by the Anti-Terrorism Council as a terrorist.

The bill granting the President the power to hold off Social Security System (SSS) contribution hikes during the coronavirus pandemic has been signed into law.

Six research and development projects that will serve as foundation studies of the proposed Virology and Vaccine Institute of the Philippines are set to be launched soon, the Department of Science and Technology revealed yesterday.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government has lauded the approval on second reading of the economic Cha-cha resolution by the House of Representatives.

The leading development assistance agencies of South Korea and the United States have agreed to pursue joint development projects in the Philippines to boost the country’s climate resilience and address ocean plastic pollution.