MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines may have to wait until the first or second quarter of 2023 before it can return to normalcy or a pre-pandemic condition, President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday.
Duterte made the remark after the country received its first shipment of 600,000 doses of Sinovac Biotech Covid-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese government.
He said the government will expedite its Covid-19 immunization program.
“In about maybe early year 2023, not 2022. Ito ngayon hanggang katapusan ng buwan, paspasan tayo,” he said in a press conference after the turnover ceremony of the Sinovac vaccines at the Villamor Air Base in Pasay City.
“Early in the first, maybe the f…
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