Voters testing positive for COVID-19 and still completing isolation will not be allowed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to cast their ballots in the May 9, 2022 national and local elections.

Exhausted nurses in the country are struggling to care for patients as colleagues contract COVID or quit a profession that was dangerously understaffed even before the pandemic.

The Philippine National Police is set to open its camps when the government allows the rollout of COVID vaccines for minors aged 12 to 17.

Isabela, Negros Occidental and Cotabato have recorded a “serious” increase in daily average COVID-19 cases in the past week, according to a member of the OCTA Research Group.

Starting on Oct. 1, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is requiring all immigrant visa applicants over the age of 12 to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. This includes people within the US applying for adjustment of status, or outside the US applying for immigrant visas.