MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte wants to establish the Philippines’ own vaccine institute as his “legacy” to Filipinos before his term ends in 2022, Malacaang said Tuesday.
According to presidential spokesman Harry Roque, Duterte has already directed the Department of Budget and Management to set aside funds for the proposed vaccine institute.
“This is the instruction now that the DBM should have a substantial amount of funding available so we can establish a vaccine institute to enable us to manufacture our own vaccines,” Roque said in an online briefing.
Roques said that the President wishes to leave as a legacy that he was the…
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