Unauthorized vaccination probe must be completed Good news! Despite President Duterte’s ordering the Presidential Security Group not to obey Senate summons for an investigation, the Food and Drug Administration persists in finding out how the unregistered vaccine for COVID-19 from China, which the PSG used to inoculate its soldiers in September and October, was illegally brought into the country.
It was Duterte himself who, on Dec. 26, disclosed the unauthorized PSG vaccinations, setting off calls for investigation by concerned agencies under the Executive. But on Jan. 4, when Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon urged summoning the PSG chief to a scheduled hearing on the government’s vaccination plans this month by the Senate sitting as a committee of the whole, the President warned/threatened: “If (the PSG) will be called to testify in Congress… I would ask the PSG to just shut up. Do not answer. Invoke the right against self-incrimination and you will not get anything
Vice President Leni Robredo said Sunday that the government should focus on how to cushion the impact of the coronavirus pandemic to Filipinos instead of Charter change.
The latest push for the franchise renewal of ABS-CBN network may become "bloody" but President Duterte will continue to keep his hands off the matter, according to Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo.
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri on Sunday disclosed that the Senate is planning to purchase COVID-19 vaccines for its employees and staff.
Senate President Vicente Sotto III is hoping that the chambers’ upcoming inquiry on the government’s vaccination program will help address the public’s hesitation to be immunized against COVID-19.