Press Release - Lacson: On the Meeting with Vaccine Czar Carlito Galvez Jr senate.gov.ph - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from senate.gov.ph Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
endIndex: The National Task Force on COVID-19 said contracts with companies that have qualified in the government s criteria for vaccine storage may be completed within the month. (FILE PHOTO)
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 20) The National Task Force on COVID-19 said contracts with companies that have qualified in the government s criteria for vaccine storage may be completed within the month. I believe critical terms have been ironed out so we are very confident that by January all the contracts will be finished, said Vaccine Czar Carlito Galvez, Jr. when asked about the storage capacities for the COVID-19 vaccines, in a press conference on Wednesday.
The country is set to receive COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility within the first quarter of this year, government officials said on Wednesday night.
This was announced by Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III and Vaccine Czar Carlito Galvez Jr. in a joint statement.
PH targets 50M-70M Filipinos to be vaccinated in 2021 philippinetimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from philippinetimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Published December 17, 2020, 2:54 PM
President Duterte told Health Secretary Francisco Duque III to answer allegations that he was to blame for the delay in the country’s acquisition of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque made the statement after Senator Panfilo Lacson, citing Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. and Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez, revealed that it was Duque who “dropped the ball” on the Philippines’ chance to acquire 10 million doses of Pfizer’s vaccine, reportedly set for delivery as early as next month.
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte holds a meeting with some members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) at the Malago Clubhouse in Malacañang on April 8, 2020.