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.

Senators described as “confusing” the explanation of the Department of Social Welfare and Development on the distribution of special amelioration program or ayuda for poor families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Colin Powell, a US war hero and the first Black secretary of state, has died from complications from COVID-19, his family said yesterday. He was 84.

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.