MANILA, Philippines China is not pushing its COVID-19 vaccines as part of its diplomacy, the Philippines’ top diplomat said over the weekend. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said China actually needs many vaccines for its people, but Beijing is donating 500,000 doses to the Philippines in keeping with President Xi Jinping’s commitment to President Duterte. China, Locsin said, offered concessional rates to the Philippines for.
MANILA, Philippines After confirmation that a Filipino had been infected with the UK variant of COVID-19 following a business trip in Dubai, the Philippine government extended yesterday for another 15 days the travel restrictions on 33 countries with known cases of new coronavirus strains and expanded the restriction to cover the United Arab Emirates and Hungary. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque Jr. broke the news after the Inter-Agency Task.