Nationally Determined Contributions detail countries' commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as measures to adapt to climate change.

The government can still choose not to go through with its purchase of 25 million jabs from China's Sinovac, the country's vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said Friday during a Senate probe on the national vaccination plan

Journalists renewed their call for the decriminalization of libel, arguing that the country’s defamation laws have been used to intimidate journalists.

The number of cases stands at 27,033 or 5.4% of the nation’s confirmed cases, latest data from the Department of Health showed.

This came after the country detected its first confirmed case of the new and more transmissible variant first seen in the United Kingdom: a 29-year-old Filipino who arrived from Dubai.

Sen. Ping Lacson on Friday sounded the alarm over the vaccine czar making contravening statements on the prices of the COVID-19 jabs being acquired by the government amid fears that the country is purchasing less effective vaccines at a higher cost.

The chairperson of the House committee on constitutional amendments guaranteed the early passage of proposed amendments to the Constitution, heeding the call of a House leader for the swift approval of the proposals.

In a briefing, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said authorities are having difficulty tracking some of the passengers of the Emirates flight EK332, where the 29-year-old real estate agent was aboard from Dubai to Manila on January 7.

The Philippine government extended the ban on foreign travelers coming from 32 countries over the new and more infectious coronavirus variant, Malacañang announced.

The Senate Committee of the Whole is set to resume its probe on the government's vaccination program against COVID-19, and Senate President Tito Sotto is hoping it will be the last installment.