The Vaccine Expert Panel is studying whether people administered with Sinovac vaccine should be given booster shots to strengthen their protection against COVID, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said yesterday.

Business groups welcomed the call of President Duterte in his State of the Nation Address for the passage of legislative measures intended to help the economy bounce back from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two cases of the COVID-19 Delta variant have been detected in San Juan, the city government said yesterday.

Ten repatriated overseas Filipino workers who arrived in this city this month have tested positive for COVID-19.

The country incurred a balance of payment deficit of $312 million in June, reversing the $80 million surplus booked in the same period last year as more dollars flowed out of the country to settle more maturing foreign obligations, as well as the widening trade deficit arising from the further reopening of the global economy from COVID-19 lockdowns, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said yesterday.