MANILA, Philippines—President Rodrigo Duterte’s chief economic manager on Wednesday (April 14) joined calls for rich countries with excess coronavirus vaccines in their stockpiles to share these with poorer nations as supply runs short because of resurgent infections.
“The Philippines strongly supports the statement of Mr. David Malpass, former US undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs and now the World Bank president, who underscored the importance of releasing vaccines from countries with excess supplies as soon as possible,” Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said at an online forum with Filipino and American businessmen.
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