MANILA, Philippines — After being criticized for getting inoculated with Sinopharm vaccine, President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday that he had asked Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian to stop sending that brand of COVID-19 vaccine to the country.
In his speech, Duterte said he has asked Huang to just send Sinovac vaccines to the country.
“Here’s a deal. I told the ambassador that Sinopharm was criticized for not going through an examination. I said: Just remove it. You withdraw all Sinopharm vaccines — 1,000 of them,” Duterte said, speaking partly in Filipino.
“Stop sending Sinopharm here so that there would be no fuss. I said: Just give us Sinovac, which is being used…
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