MANILA, Philippines — Half of the 10,000 Covid-19 vaccines from China’s state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm will be allocated to the wives of members of the Presidential Security Group (PSG), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Friday.
FDA director-general Eric Domingo confirmed this in a text message to INQUIRER.net, saying the wives of the PSG personnel are “close contacts of the soldiers.”
Malacaang earlier announced that the FDA has issued a compassionate use license for 10,000 doses of the vaccines for PSG members.
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque earlier said the vaccines may also cover families of the PSG personnel since t…
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