Various issues ranging from transportation woes and problems with maintaining temperature have caused the wastage of 12,970 vaccine doses, the Department of Health said yesterday.

Secretary Vince Dizon has resigned as president of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority, but will continue to be part of the government’s anti-COVID-19 efforts, a BCDA official said yesterday.

The state-run Zamboanga City Medical Center in this city is experiencing an increase in COVID fatalities, and the bodies are piling up and awaiting cremation, hospital officials said yesterday.

Results of COVID tests conducted at the Philippine Red Cross molecular laboratory in Subic are valid and reliable, according to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, in response to an investigation by the House of Representatives into the supposed complaint of false positives.

Nineteen months after it shut down due to COVID, Camiguin Island in Mindanao will reopen to tourists on Oct. 25.