MANILA, Philippines — Speaker Lord Allan Velasco expressed hopes Monday that the country’s vaccination program against Covid-19 will be rolled out earlier as the House of Representatives approved the measure seeking to expedite the procurement of the shots against the deadly disease.
Velasco made the remark after the lower chamber approved House Bill No. 8648 or the “Covid-19 Vaccination Program Act of 2021.”
“We hope the bill will serve its noble purpose of helping the national government hasten the purchase and administration of the vaccine against Covid-19, which already killed more than 12,000 people nationwide and sent the economy into deep contraction,” Velasco said in …
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