Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque (OPS / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
In a radio interview, Roque said he got the assurance from the US Embassy in Manila about the donation on July 1.
“Inaasahan din natin iyong donasyon ng Amerika, mayroon din tayong mga 3 million na Johnson & Johnson na single dosage po iyan (We are expecting the donation of the USA of 3 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine),” he told RMN-DZXL on Wednesday, July 7.
“So that is good for 3 million individuals na wala na pong second dose (no second dose is needed),” he added.
Roque said the donation will go through the COVAX Facility, the global pooled procurement mechanism for COVID-19 vaccines led by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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A youth group slammed the Malacañang for its “late expression of alarm” over the poor learning results among Filipino learners as reported by the World Bank.
Based on the World Bank report, 80 percent of Filipino students showed poor learning results or below minimum levels of proficiency expected of them. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN)
“While this alarm expressed by Malacanang is necessary, it is more alarming for us students that we are only now getting that reaction from the state,” National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) National President Jandeil Roperos said.
Roperos noted that this has been a “systemic problem with multidimensional and multisectoral aspects, and as the World Bank report has said, it has been exacerbated by the pandemic.”