COTABATO CITY—At least 348 vials of Coronavac, the coronavirus vaccine manufactured by Chinese firm Sinovac, had been left in a freezer without electricity during the weekend and may have been damaged and rendered unfit for human use, according to a Cotabato provincial official on Thursday (May 13).
Philbert Malaluan, Cotabato provincial board member and spokesperson of the provincial Inter Agency Task Force (IATF), said as of 4 p.m. on Thursday, the provincial government had received an advisory from the regional Department of Health (DOH) office that the vaccines had been damaged.
The DOH advisory came two days after the provincial government sent the vaccin…
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