Gov’t eyes virology body for future pandemics BusinessWorld 9 hrs ago
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THE PHILIPPINES is studying a plan to set up a vaccine development center and may assign production to the private sector under a private-public partnership (PPP) deal, according to the Department of Science and Technology (DoST).
Officials of the agency had met with their counterparts in the Health and Trade departments to fine-tune the proposal that will be submitted to President Rodrigo R. Duterte this week, DoST Secretary Fortunato T. de la Peña told an online news briefing on Monday.
“We studied a number of vaccine development and manufacturing in Asia and we want to study the models adopted by Thailand and India further,” he said in mixed English and Filipino.
A clinical trial for a South Korea-manufactured vaccine against COVID-19 will be conducted in the Philippines this month, the chief executive of a local firm said Monday.
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