Vergeire said the spike could be attributed to activities done during the holidays.

A representative from China's Sinovac Biotech must be present to field questions about its vaccine during the next Senate hearing on the national inoculation program, Sen. Risa Hontiveros said.

Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. on Thursday rejected a call for him to resign over allegations that the administration's highly questioned bid to procure China's Sinovac is overpriced.

Of the total confirmed cases, 30,126 or 5.9% are active cases.

Bharat Biotech, which partnered with the Indian Council of Medical Research and National Institute of Virology to develop Covaxin, was the fourth pharmaceutical firm to apply for EUA in the country.

The Department of Justice has thrown out a complaint against Sen. Koko Pimentel — who went out in public while waiting for his COVID-19 test results — over an alleged violation of a law the government said could be used to arrest quarantine viola...

In a briefing Thursday, DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the department will recommend to the government’s coronavirus task force the possibility of requiring returning overseas Filipinos to get tested again five days after their arri...

Even before the University of the Philippines-Department of National Defense pact was scrapped earlier this week, state forces had been conducting surveillance in UP campuses, Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade said.

Two bills looking to implement a vaccine passport program were filed in the Senate this week as the country waits to receive the first shipments of the life-saving jabs as soon as next month.

Latiph said he and three other Moro lawyers filed the petition challenging the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 that, they said, “would be used, as a tool, to legitimize curtailment of our liberty and freedom. And love.”