MANILA, Philippines — The government will give overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) the vaccine brand required by their country of destination despite the limited supply of Western-made jabs available in the Philippines.
Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said some countries had expressed a preference for Pfizer although he did not give any details.
He did say, however, that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) had subjected to more stringent quarantine rules workers who had been given Chinese-made vaccines like Sinopharm and Sinovac.
Limited supply
To prevent a repeat of last month’s incident in which KSA-bound OFWs were temporarily stopped from leaving Manila, Bello a…
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