Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez said the government is in talks with the four vaccine makers to possibly secure booster shots “that we will be needing either by the end of fourth quarter or early first quarter.”

The 16,621 more COVID-19 cases on Thursday pushed the country's total to 2,020,484.

“There should be no room for ineptitude and gross negligence in government service, especially at a time when such services are essential to the very survival of our citizens." 

“Let this serve as a warning that we will not tolerate this kind of misbehavior because as police officers, we should serve as the role models in abiding the laws that include traffic rules and regulations,” he said. 

UP slipped to the 601-800 bracket from the 401-500, while La Salle stood at the 1,201+ from its 1001+ bracket the year before.

An advocacy group for political prisoners on Thursday urged the government to allocate more vaccines for prisoners amid low numbers of inmates who received jabs against COVID-19 in packed jails.

"Right now it doesn't look doable because we can see that we don't want to add to those who are hungry...our objective is less than two percent in need of hospitalization is what we're preparing for. They should be able to find hospitals," presidenti...

Since the Department of Budget and Management only approved a P19.68 billion budget for DOH’s COVID-19 response, there is no funding for benefits of healthcare workers in the National Expenditure Program.

Eleazar said that Filipinos usually find themselves in malls or in other leisure areas once the ber months come around. 

OCTA Research said the capital region's reproduction rate stood at 1.39 from the week of August 26 to September 1.