MANILA, Philippines — The COVID-19 vaccine to be procured by the government will be made available to all Filipinos, including communist rebels, President Rodrigo Duterte said.
“The vaccine is available to every Filipino citizen, including the Communist NPAs [New People’s Army] so that you can fight better and you are healthy because I know that you will die,” Duterte said in a meeting on Saturday with select members of the Cabinet and infectious disease experts.
“We will make [it] available to you. In the name of humanity, we will not deny kasi ano ‘yan eh, pero just to make you healthy so that you will die ‘pag hindi kayo naghinto,”…
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