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No bus missed, no ball dropped in vaccine procurement Galvez By TED CORDERO, GMA News
Published December 19, 2020 10:16am
Updated December 19, 2020 10:59am
Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. clarified that the Philippines did not miss an opportunity to secure doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Henz Austria/ Senate PRIB/File photo The Philippines did not miss an opportunity to secure doses of COVID-19 vaccines, National Task Force Against COVID-19 Chief Implementer and vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. said Saturday. “No ‘bus’ was missed or no ‘ball’ was dropped because we are focused on our main goal, and that is, to secure an equitable share of the vaccines,” Galvez said in a statement.
Senator Panfilo M. Lacson
(SENATE OF THE PHILIPPINES / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
Lacson also said there should be no room for incompetence and ineptitude, especially on the part of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, after the events last week.
“My Christmas wish is simple. I hope we Filipinos survive this pandemic, and we get the needed vaccines soonest,” Lacson said in an interview on DWIZ radio.
But he added the Cabinet, including vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr., should help Duque not by defending him in media but by getting his job done.
He said that if there was something good that came out of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.’s tweet about someone ‘’dropping the ball’’ during the initial efforts to get vaccines, it was that the attention of those concerned had been called.
Published December 19, 2020, 3:41 PM
No bus was missed and nobody dropped the ball in the negotiations for COVID-19 vaccines from US biopharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 and the designated vaccine czar, stressed this Saturday as he finally addressed the controversies hounding the allegedly botched deal by the government with Pfizer.
Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr., chief implementer of the National Task Force (NTF) on COVID-19 (NTF AGAINST COVID-19 / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
In a “Laging Handa” press briefing, Galvez clarified that the negotiation by the government with Pfizer for the possible supply of COVID-19 vaccines “is still ongoing” and the signing of an agreement may happen this month or by January.
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