Such pronouncement effectively goes against what Duterte said last year, where he said he would volunteer to take Russia's donation of its vaccines.

The decrease in the additional cases is attributed to the “increased number of non-operating laboratories during the weekend,” the DOH said. 

The Bureau of Immigration on Tuesday said it arrested 55 foreign fugitives in the country in 2020, recording a significant drop in numbers as pandemic hampered operations.

China's Sinovac has secured approval to hold clinical trials in the country for its coronavirus vaccine, local regulators said Tuesday.

The House of Representatives approved a bill that seeks to guarantee media workers’ security of tenure and benefits, but without the higher pay the initial measure proposed.

In a statement sent to reporters, the Department of Health said it will wait for the issuance of an Emergency Use Authorization by the country’s FDA before it accepts and administers donated vaccines. The same applies to vaccines that the country w...

"The PNP wishes to state that the termination of the agreement does not diminish our mandate to uphold the law at all times. Any abuse or criminal behavior committed by men in uniform shall be dealt with accordingly," Sinas said in his statement. 

In the Duterte government’s latest move seen to shrink spaces for activists and dissent, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has unilaterally terminated the decades-long accord with the University of the Philippines that bars state forces to enter i...

Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, who is a UP graduate and former justice secretary, said ending the agreement "unnecessarily increases tension between the UP and the authorities” and called on Lorenzana to review the termination of the pact.

IBP President Domingo Egon Cayosa asserted that “there is compelling legal basis for transparency, even under the COVID-19 emergency.”