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Josephine Ma is China news editor and has covered China news for the Post for more than 20 years. As a correspondent in Beijing, she reported on everything from the 2003 Sars outbreak to the riots in Lhasa and the Beijing Olympics in 2008. She has been based in Hong Kong since 2009. She has a master’s degree in development studies from the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in English language from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo)
During his taped briefing, Duterte explained there is no violation of the equal protection of the laws, which said that a government cannot deny people equal protection of its governing laws, when he approved the use of Western-made vaccine brands on seafarers since this is required by their employers.
Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have an efficacy rate of almost 95 percent in clinical trials, higher than that of Sinovac, the Chinese-made vaccine widely distributed in the Philippines.
“It is high time that the people would know or must know na itong lahat ng vaccine puro effective ‘yan (all of these vaccines are effective),” the Chief Executive said.
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Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday, May 9, scored the inoculation of President Duterte with the Sinopharm vaccine despite it not having an emergency use authorization (EUA) from the country’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
VP Leni Robredo (Jansen Romero/Manila Bulletin) During her weekly