![]() ![]() Philippine vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr., a former military general, also begged the public to follow the prioritization rules this week. Photo: Presidential Communications Operations Office / AFP Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (2nd L) looking at a vial of the Sinovac vaccine, after a plane transporting the first batch of the vaccine arrived abroad a Chinese air force plane, at Villamor air base in Manila. ![]() The problem here is that we’re still in the first group ,” he said. “I understand fully the psyche of a Filipino. In a televised speech late Wednesday, Duterte himself acknowledged the conditions set by WHO and its COVAX Facility, ordering health authorities to investigate. While difficult to determine the scale of line-jumping, interviews with medical professionals, social media posts reviewed by VICE World News, and the government’s own statements point to a growing problem that authorities are struggling to control. President Rodrigo Duterte’s top officials, nine mayors who were entrusted with vaccines, celebrities, and ordinary people with connections have all received jabs. More than 13,000 people have died in the Philippines since the pandemic started a year ago, and hospitals are now dealing with a second wave.īut the limited doses, which are barely enough for 1.7 million medical front-liners in the country, has not stopped the powerful and wealthy from cutting the line. ![]() Donated by the WHO’s global COVAX Facility, an alliance ensuring vaccine availability for non-wealthy nations, the AstraZeneca batches were reserved for front-line health care workers as part of the agreement. The first-ever batches containing 600,000 shots of China’s Sinovac vaccine and nearly half a million doses of the United Kingdom’s AstraZeneca jab arrived in the Philippines this month. ![]()
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