MANILA, Philippines — “Halos maluha-luha po kami no’ng dumating ‘yung Sinovac.”
(We were tearful when the Sinovac vaccines arrived.)
Such was the remark of National Task Force against Covid-19 chief implementer and vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. on Monday on the shipment of 600,000 doses of China-made vaccines from Sinovac BioTech on Sunday, which he dubbed as “doses of hope.”
“At last dumating na ‘yung doses of hope na hinihintay,” he said in a speech at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) where the government’s vaccination program officially started.
(At last the doses of hope that we were waiting for have arrived.)
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