The newly reported figures on August 31 pushed the country's count of COVID-19 cases to 1,989,857.

President Rodrigo Duterte said he ordered Health Secretary Francisco Duque III at the onset of the pandemic to rush the purchase of Personal Protective Equipment that lawmakers are looking into for alleged overpricing.

The move seeks to include those that also need in-person training, such as engineering, maritime, and hotel and restaurant management programs. 

President Rodrigo Duterte is set to receive this week the Department of Justice-led panel review on 52 cases on police “drug war” operations that resulted in deaths, but access to the report for families of victims or the Commission of Human Righ...

The Philippines is battling a surge in COVID-19 infections, driven by the Delta variant, which is putting the country's health system under pressure.

That figure amounts to 76.29% of the P311 million that the Department of Budget and Management released last week to DOH. 

“It is the right of each of us to present our grievance where we think it will be addressed. So we respect the decision of the families of persons killed in anti-illegal drug operations in seeking an International Criminal Court investigation."

The number of inmates in Bureau of Corrections facilities who received jabs against COVID-19 went up to more than 2,600, but still posed a small percentage of vaccinated Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs) among 48,000 prisoners, DOJ data showed.

The Philippines has pledged to donate COVID-19 vaccines to coup-wracked Myanmar, under the condition that these would not be used to go after critics of the junta which deposed the democratically elected civilian government in February.

Presidential adviser for entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion yesterday said limiting the mobility of the unvaccinated may be done for the common good as he received support for his proposed “bakuna bubble” from various busines...