MANILA, Philippines — Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. has assured that Mindanao will not be left behind and will receive COVID-19 vaccines “immediately” once more supplies arrive in the Philippines.
Galvez made the assurance after Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez lamented how Galvez and officials of the COVID-19 task force were supposedly neglecting the coronavirus situation in Mindanao.
“The National Task Force against COVID-19 would like to assure our honorable members of the Congress that we will not neglect the regions, especially those in Mindanao, in our vaccine deployment,” Galvez said in a statement on Wednesday.
“Following President Rodrigo Duterte’s direc…
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