MANILA, Philippines—The Department of National Defense (DND) is set to start vaccinating its employees using donated supplies of CoronaVac, the vaccine developed by Chinese company Sinovac Biotech and which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said may not be advisable for use on the elderly.
It’s not clear if the DND’s highest ranking official, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, who is 72 years old, would receive CoronaVac.
The DND will receive 100,000 doses out of 600,000 doses of CoronaVac being donated by China, which is donating at least 10 million doses of coronavirus vaccines to developing countries.
In a statement, the DND said CoronaVac would be given to all employ…
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