MANILA, Philippines—Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Monday (March 1) dismissed as rumors reports that some soldiers were opposed to being compelled to get vaccinated for SARS Cov2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
“Who said that?” Lorenzana told reporters on the sidelines of the first vaccinations of health workers at the military hospital V. Luna Medical Center.
“That’s just rumor. It’s not true,” he said.
He said soldiers were trained to follow orders. “If you tell them get vaccinated, they’ll get vaccinated. It’s not true that many are complaining,” Lorenzana said.
The Department of National Defense (DND) received 100,000 out of 600,000 doses of CoronaVac, the v…
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