Philadelphia Health Department

Philly Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster shot

Philly begins administering Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster shots

Philly schools urged to conduct more COVID-19 testing for students as transmission rate remains high

Philadelphia schools COVID-19

How to replace your COVID-19 vaccination card if you live in Philly, elsewhere in Pennsylvania or New Jersey

replace vaccination card in Philadelphia

Philly expected to implement new COVID-19 rules regarding vaccinations, masks

Philly COVID-19 restrictions

Chronic male unemployment helps explain Philly's gun violence problem

Gun Violence Unemployment

'Welcome Back Philly' mural on Parkway encourages residents to get vaccinated

Mural Arts Parkway Mural

Philly to drop COVID-19 indoor mask mandate Friday

Philly indoor mask mandate

Homebound Vaccination Program aims to provide COVID vaccines to the elderly, people with disabilities

COVID-19 vaccine home visit

Philly health commissioner resigns over handling of MOVE bombing victims' remains

Farley MOVE cremation

Some Philly residents in phase 1C will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine starting Monday

COVID-19 vaccine Philly Phase 1C

Philly rolls out public campaign combating COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

Let's Vax Up Philly

Series of red flags during city's Philly Fighting COVID partnership detailed in inspector general's report

PFC Report Vaccine

Acting deputy health commissioner steps down amid Philly Fighting COVID controversy

philly deputy health commissioner

Philly Fighting COVID CEO taunts city health commissioner as Mayor Kenney stands by him

COVID Doroshin Farley

City boots Philly Fighting COVID from vaccine rollout, leaving some people's second shots in flux

Philly fighting covid

Philadelphia Fire Department working to reduce COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy Philly

The new COVID-19 variant is now in the United States — here's what is known

New COVID-19 strain

Philadelphia rolls out COVID-19 testing truck

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School District of Philadelphia postpones return to in-person learning

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Philly residents who took part in election demonstrations should self-isolate for two weeks, city health officials say

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St. Joe’s Prep suspends in-person classes for a week due to positive COVID-19 tests

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Temple suspends in-person classes for remainder of fall semester due to rising COVID-19 cases

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Temple pauses in-person classes for two weeks due to COVID-19 outbreak on campus

Temple University COVID-19 cases

Delaware, Maryland removed from New Jersey’s COVID-19 travel advisory

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Philly restaurants allowed to restart indoor dining with significant restrictions after Labor Day

Philly indoor dining

Philly officials to make decision on indoor dining by Aug. 21

Philadelphia indoor dining

Indego bike share delivering free pack 'n' play cribs during COVID-19 pandemic

Philadelphia pack and play program

White House's Dr. Deborah Birx says Philly becoming coronavirus hot spot, but city's data not showing it

Philly opens drive-thru coronavirus testing site for residents older than 50

Coronavirus Public Drive-thru Testing Philly Citizens Bank Park

Philly region ramps up COVID-19 testing, plans drive-thru site near stadium complex

Farley Coronavirus March 18

Children's Health

Philly officials ban mass gatherings as coronavirus concerns grow

Coronavirus Philly Schools Gatherings

Six months after Philly's hepatitis A outbreak, cases have dropped sharply

Philly health department response to Hepatitis A outbreak

Second Philadelphia patient cleared of having coronavirus, health officials say

Another possible coronavirus case in Philly

Philly health officials investigating possible coronavirus case at William Penn Charter

Philadephia possible Coronavirus Case William Penn Charter

First-ever ranking of the health of Philadelphia's 46 neighborhoods

Carroll - City Hall, Broad Street and the Philadelphia Skyline

Philadelphia declares Heat Health Emergency, from Wednesday to Sunday evening

Carroll - Summer, Swimming in Fountains, Logan Square, Heat Wave

3 Philadelphia dental offices closed due to unsanitary practices, possible infection

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Philly effort to ban flavored tobacco dies with state budget

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Safe Injection Sites

State rep: proposed safe injection sites in Philly are 'dangerous'

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Their son got lead poisoning and the city treated them like slumlords

Lead Poisoning

In Philly, he wages war on a never-ending tide of rats

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