More than 1,000 business owners and franchisees expressed support to allow greater mobility to fully-vaccinated individuals to revive the economy.

Tuesday's new cases pushed the Philippines' total COVID count to 2,266,066.

"We have made progress but unfortunately, the progress in the Philippines has been painfully slow," the WHO representative to the country said. "This is unfortunate, unsatisfactory."

Curfew will be implemented from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. during the pilot run of the alert level system, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Benhur Abalos said on Tuesday.

Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque’s bid to sit as part of the International Law Commission is facing growing opposition at the Philippines, with the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers being the latest to voice their objection.

The new batch of donated jabs will come on top of the 13 million doses the global initiative, co-led by the WHO, had already sent, per Dr. Rabindra Abeyasinghe. 

The Department of Justice is set to place former Presidential Economic Adviser Michael Yang under the Bureau of Immigration’s lookout bulletin, along with eight others tagged in the Senate hearing into pandemic deficiencies already placed under ILB...

President Rodrigo Duterte is requiring his Cabinet members to seek his approval first before attending congressional inquiries as lawmakers ramp up scrutiny of his administration’s pandemic deals.

“With the issuance of the guidelines of the quarantine alert level system, I have instructed our police commanders in Metro Manila to study carefully and continue to liaise with the LGUs for strategic deployment and enforcement for the proper imple...

“As we start a new school year, the private education sector is in critical state," said the Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations.