MANILA, Philippines—The government is looking for where to get P75 billion in funds to also vaccinate teenagers and buy booster shots for up to 85 million Filipinos in 2022, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said on Thursday (May 13).
President Rodrigo Duterte’s Administrative Order (AO) No. 41, which tasked agencies with finding savings from the P4.1-trillion 2020 national budget whose validity had been extended until end of 2021, was aimed at reallocating funds in light of the emerging possibility that more Filipinos needed to be vaccinated, according to Dominguez, who heads the government’s economic team.
Dominguez said finance offiicals had to determi…
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