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By HANA BORDEY, GMA News Published May 4, 2021 10:06am Several months after the incident, the case of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) members getting inoculated with unregistered COVID-19 vaccines remains pending before the Food and Drug Administration as no information was provided for the investigation, FDA director general Eric Domingo said Tuesday. “Hanggang ngayon, pending case pa po ‘yan. Wala po talagang sumasagot sa amin e pati po sa [Department of Health]. So nagtatanong din po ang Department of Health pero wala kaming makuhang information,” Domingo said in an inter...

Published May 4, 2021, 2:51 PM The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday, May 4, said it cannot assure for the safety and quality of the products used under the condition of a Compassionate Special Permit (CSP) as it did not undergo evaluation by the agency. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Director General Eric Domingo FDA Director General Eric Domingo said an unregistered drug, medical device, or food product used under the condition of a CSP does not undergo evaluation by the FDA. “So when we give a compassionate special permit it is very clear that we have no assurance of safe...

FDA: Duterte's Sinopharm vaccine under limited use permit May 4, 2021 11:23 AM PHT In an interview with GMA's Dobol B TV, FDA Director General Eric Domingo said that the limited use permit was granted to the Presidential Security Group (PSG) before the vaccines arrived in the country. He did not specify though when the Sinopharm shots arrived in the country. "Ito ‘yung hiningi ng PSG dati bago pa dumating ang mga bakuna dito sa Pilipinas. Mayroon silang donation from China at hiningan ito ng special permit para nga maprotektahan ang Presidente at mukhang 'yun din po ang ginamit sa ating p...

Duterte vaccination: A look at Sinopharm compassionate use permit for PSG 1285 '); President Rodrigo Duterte received his first dose of Sinopharm’s vaccine against COVID-19 despite it being given a “compassionate special permit” for his close-in security personnel only. Sinopharm has also yet to be granted an  emergency use approval by the country’s Food and Drug Administration. In a Facebook Live aired on Monday night, May 3, Duterte was shown being administered with a dose of the vaccine from China by Health Secretary Francisco Duque III. The 76-year-old president was also with...

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) FDA Director General Eric Domingo said the agency cannot determine yet the efficacy and other information regarding the vaccine since it has yet to be evaluated by the agency. “Hindi pa naman siya dumaan din talaga sa evaluation sa amin (The vaccine has not yet went through our evaluation),” Domingo told reporters in a virtual briefing Tuesday, May 4. Citing the evaluation of the World Health Organization (WHO), Domingo said the efficacy of Sinopharm is similar to the China’s Sinovac vaccine. “From what I have read in other evaluations like from the ...