MANILA, Philippines — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday vowed that it will go after distributors of “illegal and unregistered” COVID-19 vaccines as the agency clarified that it has not authorized any drug yet.
This, after President Rodrigo Duterte in his address on Saturday, claimed that many people in the Philippines have already received the COVID-19 vaccine of China’s Sinopharm, even as regulators have yet to approve any vaccine for use.
The President also bared that some members of the military also received the vaccine.
FDA director-general Eric Domingo, in an interview with CNN Philippines’ “The Source,” said that it was a “personal choice” i…
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