CEBU CITY—Lapu-Lapu City held a simulation of vaccine injection with the city’s mayor pretending to get injected with a vaccine that was actually just a placebo, or a substance made to look like the actual vaccine but is actually just water which sometimes contains salt, sugar or starch.
Mayor Junard Chan went public with the process, including actual pricking by a syringe in his arm, raising questions about whether he, indeed, received a vaccine dose, expected to be CoronaVac, ahead of health care workers who are supposedly on top of the list of priorities.
Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, Department of Health (DOH) Central Visayas spokesperson, said the mayor was given a saline solution,…
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