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Published May 10, 2021, 5:20 PM Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said the government can make use of the humongous congressional insertions the Department of Budget and Management has tagged as “For Later Release” to meet the P20-billion requirement for the procurement of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines for this year. Lacson raised this possibility following a meeting between him and Senate President Vicente Sotto III, and the “three czars” of the government’s COVID response program last Thursday. According to Lacson, the COVID response czars – vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr., te...

Press Release Why not use the humongous congressional insertions tagged by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) as "For Later Release" (FLR) to meet the P20-billion requirement for COVID vaccines for this year? Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson raised the possibility following a meeting between him and Senate President Vicente Sotto III, and the "three czars" of the government's COVID response program last Thursday. "I suggested that the P20 billion can be sourced from the insertions made by lawmakers marked 'FLR' because the implementing agencies concerned were not consulted on the insertions ...

Press Release Senate President Vicente Sotto III and I had a good meeting with the three czars of the government's COVID response Thursday night to discuss red tape issues and the funding needs hounding the country's fight against COVID. We met with vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr., testing czar Vivencio Dizon, and contact tracing czar Benjamin Magalong. Among the topics we discussed were: * Immediate legislative action against red tape in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that hampers government efforts against COVID, and which we agreed on a plan to resolve quickly enough. * P90 billion...

Published May 7, 2021, 3:37 PM Senator Panfilo M. Lacson on Friday expressed optimism that herd immunity might yet be achieved in the country with proper budget and lots of help from the business sector and local government units (LGUs). Lacson issued this statement after he and Senate President Vicente Sotto III had a ‘’good meeting’’ with the three czars of the government’s COVID response Thursday night to discuss red tape issues and the funding needs hounding the country’s fight against COVID. The three are vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr., testing czar Vivencio Dizon, and cont...