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Duque, Galvez to get COVID-19 vaccine jabs today

MANILA – Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. and Health secretary Francisco Duque III will be vaccinated with Sinovac’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine this...

‘Simplified’ travel restriction key to tourism revival – DOT

MANILA – The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases’ (IATF-EID) decision to have unified travel protocol is expected to boost...
Philippine National Police chief Gen. Debold Sinas (2nd from right) and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency director general Wilkins Villanueva (3rd from left) do a fist bump during a joint press briefing in Camp Crame, Quezon City on Thursday. PNA PHOTO BY LLOYD CALIWAN

NBI sole prober for PNP, PDEA ‘misencounter’

MANILA – The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) will be the sole agency to investigate the “misencounter” between the operatives of Philippine National Police...
A professor at the University of Brasilia shows the vaccine to journalists amidst the coronavirus pandemic on Aug. 5, 2020 in Brazil. ANDRESSA ANHOLETE/GETTY IMAGES

Sinovac’s COVID vaccine OK for health workers

MANILA – The interim National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) recommended the use of Sinovac’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine for health workers. Department of...

HOR to push economic Cha-cha passage

MANILA – The House of Representatives is prioritizing the passage of the proposal to amend the restrictive economic provisions in the 1987 Constitution on...
Police cordon off the area following a shooting incident between the Quezon City District Police special operation unit personnel and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency agents beside the Ever Gotesco Mall along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City around 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday. PNP-PIO VIA PNA

PDEA vs QCPD; Misencounter leaves four casualties

MANILA – The unfortunate “misencounter” between members of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has yielded four...
DUTERTE. AP PHOTO

Duterte seeks public opinion on VFA fate

MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte wanted to hear the public opinion on whether to push through the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement between...
Quality checks are performed in the packaging facility of Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech in Beijing in September of last year. REUTERS

Rollout of Sinovac’s COVID vaccine on hold

MANILA – The rollout schedule for Sinovac BioTech’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) will be delayed as National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) are still...
“A friend in need is a friend indeed. The donation of vaccines is another testament to the solidarity as well as profound friendship and partnership between our two peoples and two countries,” Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian said in a Facebook post.

Vaccine donation to Philippines is for ‘friend in need,’ says Chinese envoy

MANILA -- Ahead of the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccines donated by China, its ambassador said it was a tradition between his country and...
President Rodrigo Duterte. PCOO

PRRD might get Sinopharm vaccine via ‘compassionate’ use

MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte, through the “compassionate” use license granted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), might get inoculated with coronavirus disease...