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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, May 8) A group of health experts is asking the Food and Drug Administration to cancel the compassionate use permits it issued to COVID-19 vaccines without emergency use authorization (EUA) amid safety concerns.
In a statement signed by members of the Healthcare Professionals Alliance against COVID-19, the group said it recommends to policymakers that existing CSPs for any COVID-19 vaccines without EUAs be rescinded, and that the said vaccines undergo proper EUA process before being administered to any Filipino.
This is following the recent inoculation of President Rodrigo Duterte with China s Sinopharm vaccine, which has yet to apply and receive EUA in the Philippines.
Philippine vaccine czar Carlito Galvez gave this warning as he said that there are various COVID-19 variants in the country and the vaccine efficacy will be determined six to nine months after the start of the vaccination program rollout.
A group of health professionals is demanding urgent changes to the government's COVID-19 response to prevent a "vicious cycle" of surge in infections, as well hunger among the Filipino public and economic recession.