Friday's new cases pushed the Philippines' total COVID count to 2,745,889.

In its October 22 monitoring, the independent panel of experts said average new infections in Metro Manila were down from 1,824 to 1,044. 

The Department of Justice is coordinating with the police to get thousand more case files on anti-narcotics operations that resulted in deaths, but officials admit they are undertaking “cumbersome” work, and a review of the “war on drugs” may...

Senators on Friday reminded a Pharmally executive accusing them of mistreatment that it is the Senate's right to detain him for refusing to cooperate with its probe.

Nearly 700,000 doses of AstraZeneca purchased by the private sector arrived in the Philippines on Friday morning.

The government opened inoculations for the said age group or those 12 to 17 years old in mid-October, specifically on those with underlying conditions or comorbidities. 

The secretary general of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino – Lakas ng Bayan wing backed by President Rodrigo Duterte said he is clueless about reported talks that he is being eyed as the next Commission on Elections chairman.

The Philippines on Thursday night received more doses of Pfizer and Sputnik V's COVID-19 vaccine as part of the government's procured supply. 

The Department of Health has not detected Delta sublineage reported in Europe in its monitoring of COVID-19 cases in the country, the agency said Friday.

For China’s top diplomat in the Philippines, the attendance of presidential aspirant Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the photo wall in the Chinese embassy on Wednesday and a talk with the son of the ousted Philippine presiden...