To date, 550,860 individuals have had COVID-19 in the Philippines. Of these, 5% or 27,588 are active cases.

The House Ways and Means Committee approved the tax provision of House Bill 8648 or the Emergency Vaccine Procurement Act of 2021, which seeks to authorize local governments to procure COVID-19 shots on their own without having to go through public b...

President Duterte is now willing to take the COVID-19 vaccine in public, a shift in tune from earlier shunning the move.

The Palace made the announcement after mayors of Metro Manila, which is under general community quarantine the entire month, opposed the pandemic task force’s decision to allow the reopening of cinemas and other select establishments in GCQ areas.

"The police claim that this is a 'rescue operation' but it is obvious from the videos taken by one of the Lumads there himself how the police forcefully took them. It also shows the inhumane treatment and use of police forces," Cullamat, herself a Lu...

The Department of Tourism on Monday said it has filed complaints against the six tourists from Manila who falsified their RT-PCR (Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) test results.

In a briefing, DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the case, a 46-year-old woman from Pasay City, is the parent of an MRT-3 employee.

"We agreed to lowering the age. We're the only country still on ages 18-65. But we're open to it now to open up the economy. Local governments are open to adding ages 15 to 17. But we will not sacrifice protocols," Olivarez he said in mixed Filipino ...

Parañaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez, chair of the Metro Manila Council, said the local chief executives in the capital region decided to defer the implementation until they formally meet on Wednesday.

President Duterte’s chief legal counsel Salvador Panelo yesterday disputed a survey suggesting that Filipinos are the most disapproving of their government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia.