MANILA, Philippines — Senator Panfilo Lacson thumbed down President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent warning to terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), raising the possibility that it could have limited the country’s source of COVID vaccines to those developed by China.
“‘No vaccines, no VFA!’ Treating the Americans as a bunch of yokels might have sealed our fate to settle for China’s Sinovac in lieu of the US-made Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines,” Lacson said in a statement on Monday.
Over the weekend, the President threatened to push through with the abrogation of the VFA if the United States fails to supply the Philippines with at least 20 million doses of COVID-19 vac…
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