Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Sunday said it is imperative for Congress to establish mechanisms that would prevent politics from ruining the government’s COVID-19 vaccination program.
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said the compassionate permit issued by the country’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use of 10,000 doses of Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccines is not applicable in the case of the Presidential Security Group (PSG).
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon noted the poll body has sufficient funds to expand its voter’s registration program under the 2020 and 2021 national budgets.
Senator Franklin Drilon (Senate of the Philippines / MANILA BULLETIN)
“Let us use it to buy more biometric gadgets, hire more c
Senator Franklin Drilon (Senate of the Philippines / MANILA BULLETIN)
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said the “primary concern should be to protect the poorest and the most vulnerable sectors of the economy” at this point in time.
“We must throw a lifeline to the poor who are having difficulties coping with the effects of the pandemic and inflation,” Drilon said in a statement.
“Unfortunately, the 2021 national budget provides too little for the poor,” the minority leader lamented.
On Monday night, President Duterte acknowledged that the Philippine’s economy is in “bad shape” and is “sinking deeper and deeper,” losing P2-billion a day due to the COVID-19.
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday said the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should look into the reported deaths of elderly patients who had received the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in Norway.