Sen. Francis Pangilinan
Pangilinan noted that public clamor was key to allowing local government units (LGUs) to secure their own coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine.
“Buti naman at pwede nang bumili ng bakuna para sa kanilang LGU ang ating mga local executives. Ito ay bunga rin ng pagiging vocal natin, ng mga opisyal ng LGUs, at ng taumbayan mismo sa mga kailangang gawin para mapabilis ang pagsugpo sa Covid,” Pangilinan said. (It is good that LGUs local executives are now allowed to buy vaccines. This is the result of our insistence, along with LGU executives and the people, that they themselves would find ways to hasten the defeat of COVID-19.)
DAVAO CITY – The city government of Davao will submit specimens of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients here to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) to check if they are carriers of the new variant of the disease.
The Health Department has refuted claims that a new coronavirus variant has already been detected in the Philippines, as it continued to appeal to netizens to stop spreading unverified information on the matter.