MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte apparently put his foot down on the inclusion of two of his top lieutenants in the fight against COVID-19 to be among the firsts to be administered with Sinovac vaccine during Monday’s rollout of the government’s vaccination program, amid the insistence of the government advisory council to reserve the first vaccine shots to health care workers.
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said that in order to restore public confidence in the vaccination, the President had directed vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. and testing czar Vince Dizon, chief implementer and deputy ch…
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