MANILA - Covid-19 vaccines are driving a wedge among Filipinos, fuelling heated debates over the right to be choosy and widening the gap between those who eagerly want a jab and those who are still holding out.
Sites offering doses from US pharmaceutical firm Pfizer drew long queues early this week. Those with jabs from China s Sinovac, meanwhile, were seeing fewer takers. That was very, very dangerous, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergere said in a news briefing on Friday (May 21).
She said the large crowds seen in two sites in the capital Manila and in Paranaque city that began to dole out Pfizer s vaccine were likely superspreader events .