The Department of the Interior and Local Government urged local government units Friday to reinforce measures against COVID-19 in an effort to push back against the Health Department’s projected increase in cases until the end of the year.

More countries have expressed their interest in hiring overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said it is studying several possible bilateral agreements.

Amid Metro Manila’s commuter crisis, legislators are looking at more rail lines to “move more people instead of cars,” but transport experts and advocates said rail lines aren’t the only way to do that — especially in the middle of a crisis...

Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, DOH officer-in-charge, said 190 new BA.5 cases were found in Davao region, Soccsksargen, Caraga, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, and Metro Manila.

"Many books – be it in Filipino or English – will certainly cite or quote materials from various references, including those from groups considered by the government as subversive or revolutionary," the unity statement reads. 

The surge in COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila over the past few months may have finally already peaked, independent pandemic monitor OCTA Research noted Friday.

The Department of Health has bared its plan to procure Omicron-adapted vaccines from other countries once these become available.

Around 27 thousand families affected by the recent 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Northern Luzon received financial assistance today (August 11) amounting to P270 million from the National Housing Authority (NHA) through its Emergency Housing Assistance...

The Philippines and the United States held a series of meetings to discuss current and future biological threat reduction and chemical security capacity-building initiatives in the Philippines.

The decision on whether to extend the COVID-19 state of calamity would hinge on the recommendation of the Department of Health, Malacañang said yesterday.