MANILA, Philippines — Letting local government units and private entities directly buy COVID-19 vaccines with their own funds will help the national government speed up its immunization program, Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri said in a statement issued on Tuesday.
And that’s precisely the aim of Senate Bill No. 2057 — the proposed COVID-19 Vaccination Program Act of 2021 — that Zubiri authored with several other senators and was filed on Tuesday
“We need to expedite our procurement because we are in a race against the clock,” Zubiri, himself a survivor of the disease, said. “We need mass inoculation and herd immunity as soon as possible.”
Zubiri explained th…
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