By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippine health minister, facing questions over more than $1 billion in COVID-19 spending, denied on Saturday that any money was stolen , as his department vowed to account for every peso. The country is battling one of Asia s worst coronavirus outbreaks, and the spread of the virulent Delta variant is overwhelming hospitals and healthcare workers https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-extends-travel-ban-10-countries-over-delta-concerns-2021-08-13, some of which have warned of mass resignations over unpaid allowances. You will be assured that no money went into corruption. None was stolen. I am sure of that, Health Secretary Francisco Duque told DZMM radio on Saturday. The state auditor has flagged deficiencies involving 67.3 billion pesos ($1.33 billion), casting doubts on the regularity of related transactions in the country s pandemic response. The health ministry said it will submit its explanation, including required d
The Philippine health minister, facing questions over more than US$1 billion in Covid-19 spending, denied on Saturday that any money was "stolen", as his department vowed to account for every peso.
More adverse audit observations were revealed by the Commission on Audit in the handling of the Department of Health of billions of pesos in government funds and in the implementation of its projects even as audit disallowances and suspensions of various transactions have reached over P8.8 billion a
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said Thursday, Aug. 12, that the clinical trial protocol and other related documents for the three coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines that will be used in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Solidarity Vaccine Trial (SVT) are now being reviewed