By LLANESCA T. PANTI, GMA News
Published January 27, 2021 11:37am
Food and Drug Administration Director General Eric Domingo on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021 said the investigation into the Presidential Security Group members getting unregistered COVID-19 vaccines has hit a blank wall. The investigation into Presidential Security Group (PSG) members getting inoculated with unregistered COVID-19 vaccines has hit a blank wall, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Director General Eric Domingo said on Wednesday. Domingo said this is due to the PSG sitting on authorities’ queries on who got the unregistered vaccine. The FDA official was referring to the COVID-19 vaccination on PSG members in September and October 2020 as declared by PSG commander Brigadier General Jesus Durante III in a television interview in December 2020 even if the FDA has not issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) to any COVID-19 vaccine at that point.
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Jan 17, 2021 09:27 AM EST
Illegal coronavirus vaccines plotting the country s black market have prompted the senate to call for an inquiry.
Members of the security detail of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte issued Covid-19 vaccines in September and October. But no shots were approved for use in the country, either then or now.
Late on Monday night, Duterte instructed the soldiers of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) not obey the summons and that they stay put in the barracks, saying that he would not allow them to be brutalized for all their good intentions before a Senate investigation.
Amid rising resistance to Chinese products, Beijing has declared intentions to donate half a million coronavirus vaccine shots to the Philippines, Manila officials said on Saturday.
The Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has been accused of being extremely slow in taking an action for buying coronavirus vaccine for a population of nearly 110 million people.
By DONA MAGSINO, GMA News
Published January 11, 2021 10:06am The Chinese government should lead an independent investigation on the alleged entry of unauthorized COVID-19 vaccines in the Philippines, Senator Risa Hontiveros said Monday. “China must explain. Beijing should lead their own inquiry and submit pertinent information to Philippine agencies. Responsibilidad nilang alamin kung paano nakalabas sa bansa nila at nakarating sa bansa natin ang mga ilegal na bakuna,” the opposition lawmaker said in a statement. In December, President Rodrigo Duterte said some members of the Philippine military were already injected with a COVID-19 vaccine made by Chinese firm Sinopharm without approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
The NBI is ready to investigate the alleged unauthorized importation and use of COVID-19 vaccines even as it has yet to receive the written order from the Department of Justice to do so, NBI Deputy Director Ferdinand Lavin said on Saturday.