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Under the bill, a total of P500 million will be provided for the COVID-19 National Indemnity Fund. The money will be sourced from the contingent fund of the national budget.

Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri on Wednesday assured the swift passage of the bill that would speed up the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines and ensure compensation for those who will experience adverse effects after their immunization.

endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 17) — The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation or PhilHealth already has enough funds to compensate Filipinos who may experience serious side effects after being vaccinated against COVID-19, a lawmaker said Wednesday. During a Senate hearing on the proposed COVID-19 Vaccination Program Act of 2021, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto strongly opposed the provision giving PhilHealth an additional P500 million for the indemnification fu...

Sen. Joel Villanueva (Henzberg Austria/Senate PRIB)  Villanueva, chairman of the Senate labor committee, said not all LGUs and private companies have the resources and capability to procure the vaccines but ’we also know that there can be an ‘equity issue’ along the way. ‘’While it is true that richer LGUs with the capacity to pay like Metro Manila cities would be the first to purchase vaccines, we should also remember that Metro Manila is a pandemic hotspot that accounts for about h...

With vaccinations underway and the Biden administration about to assume power, attention will soon return to an assessment of the true damage that Covid-19 has wreaked on the American economy. At this moment, it’s important to take stock of the various rescue measures that have been extended by the federal government and consider how they should be amended in the future. Above and beyond the $900 billion stimulus recently signed by President Trump, over the next two to four years it is likely...