"Here in Manila, there is no sleeping [on our duties.] I'm also lucky to have my vice mayor. My vice mayor was battle-tested... She really knows the job of being the vice mayor,” Moreno said in mixed Filipino and English.

"Pfizer has an EUA application for the use of the COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5 to 11 years...Vaccine experts are now evaluating it," FDA chief Domingo said in Filipino. "There is a possibility that before the end of the year it will be given."

In Metro Manila, 654 quarantine control checkpoints remain hoisted. In the country, there are still 7,064. 

As of data from the Department of Health on Sunday morning, another 54.5 million or 49.5% of Filipinos have received the first shot of a vaccine. 

A member of the OCTA Research Group on Friday said the country is better prepared to address the possible entry of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, but stressed that vigilance is still needed to prevent a massive surge of new cases.

For senatorial aspirant Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, the attack on members of the media serves as a serious challenge that the government must address, as the same threat may eventually include content producers in social media.

President Duterte has signed an executive order instituting measures to ensure consistent and reliable electricity service in inadequately served areas, including transferring the power to take over the operations of ailing electric cooperatives to ...

There will be “numerous denials” of party-list group applications ahead of the raffle of placements of those qualified for the May 2022 elections, the Commission on Elections said this weekend.

Local leaders in Southern Tagalog have committed support to the tandem of presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and vice presidential candidate Sara Duterte-Carpio.

The biggest problem facing the country today is government itself, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said yesterday.