The Department of Health said 95 of the additional infections are local cases, one is a Filipino returning from overseas, while 20 are still up for verification. 

The Department of Health on Thursday reported 8,127 more coronavirus cases in the country, bringing the total count to 1,627,816.

"How can these editors and journalists and reporters be expected to do a good job in covering news and issues that matter most to people?" former Inquirer executive editor Jose Ma. Nolasco.

From an average of 100 to 120 calls per day in June, the OHCC received 300 calls daily in July. In the past three days, the number of calls to the command center reached 600, with 730 calls received on Wednesday alone.

A study by price aggregator iPrice showed that the Philippines is the second among six Southeast Asian countries with the highest interest in mental health services amid the pandemic.

The Philippines has fully vaccinated ten million Filipinos as of Thursday morning, a day before Metro Manila goes into a two-week lockdown, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said.

Following backlash, the chief of the Philippine National Police has walked back on his pronouncement that fetching and driving essential workers by persons not allowed outside their homes during the two-week enhanced community quarantine in Metro Man...

An Olongapo court denied the prosecution’s appeal to overturn the acquittal of Aeta farmers Japer Gurung and Junion Ramos on violation of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020.

Sen. Bong Go has requested President Duterte and concerned government agencies to hire 15,000 contact tracers from Aug. 2 to Dec. 31, stressing their critical role in the government’s pandemic response operations.

Former Panorama magazine columnist, author of three books and former president couple with her late husband, Joe Meily Jr., of the Christian Family Movement Anita Tagle Sayoc Meily passed away yesterday at the age of 94 due to COVID-19.