China COVID19 vaccine donations helpful as PH struggles to buy doses, says Duterte
MANILA—President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday night again thanked China for donating COVID-19 vaccines to the Philippines, supposedly augmenting the country's limited jab supply.
"Ang problema talaga natin . . . sa Pilipinas, kulang ang bakuna. Nagbibili tayo ng kung saan-saan at dumadating na ngayon paunti-unti. Were it not for the donation of China, zero. We started with nothing," said Duterte. "We could continue preventing sickness, hospitalization and everything kung may bakuna na tayo at na-distribute na natin sa lahat ng corners ng Pilipinas," he added. Watch more in iWantTFC The Philippines has so far received 3.
Out of the 4,040,600 doses that reached the country, 3,970,680 or 98 percent have already been distributed to local government units since the country's inoculation rollout on Mar. 1. "Ang problema bakuna. Hindi that we are not doing anything, or that we are not doing it properly. Who would ever think that there would be a pandemune an epidemic, a pandemic," he said.
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