MANILA, Philippines — The study showing the apparently limited protection given by AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine against the disease’s South African variant should not deter Filipinos from being injected with it, Malacaang said Thursday.
In an online briefing, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque reasoned that there are not that many cases of the South African variant in the country yet.
“Hindi naman po malawak ang presensya ng South African COVID [variant] dito sa ating bayan so far. So I don’t think it is something that should be a basis para mag atubili na naman sa AstraZeneca,” Roque said.
(The presence of the South African COVID variant is not yet prevalen…
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