Published February 4, 2021, 1:10 PM
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) as Chair of the Task Group on Vaccine Evaluation and Selection (TG-VES) is set to meet on Friday with the World Health Organization (WHO) to discuss the upcoming conduct of the WHO Solidarity Vaccine Trials (SVT) in the country.
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DOST Secretary Fortunato dela Peña bared this during the televised “Laging Handa” briefing held on Thursday, Feb. 4.
He said they are hopeful that the WHO will finally issue the final Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and specific protocols on the conduct of the SVT in the country
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Department of Science and Technology Undersecretary Rowena Cristina Guevara, who leads the Task Group on Vaccine Evaluation and Selection (TG-VES), said the SOPs and protocols will be given to the Philippine government by the third week of February.
“We will get in two weeks’ time,” she told the Manila Bulletin in a phone interview.
“Kasi inexplain nila sa amin kasi biglang nagkaroon ng variants ‘yung UK and South Africa, they also had to figure out how to understate the protocol,”she said.
(They explained to us, because we suddenly had the UK and South Africa , they also had to figure out how to understate the protocol.)