MANILA, Philippines — Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. on Friday stressed the significance of passing a bill that would provide a vaccine indemnification fund to compensate recipients who may suffer from side effects of Covid-19 shots.
According to Galvez, such a measure will help the Philippines in its quest for enough doses of Covid-19 vaccines because it will give confidence to drug manufacturers supplying the government with the jabs.
The country needs at least 140 million doses of the new coronavirus vaccines in order to inoculate 70 million Filipinos this year and achieve herd immunity.
He also noted that President Rodrigo Duterte’s urgent certification of the b…
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