Buoyed by the progress in the global race for the coronavirus vaccine, the Duterte government is eyeing the acquisition of P20 billion worth of vaccines once the supplies become available.
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases core members at the Malago Clubhouse in Malacañang on July 30, 2020.
“I promise you by the grace of God, I hope by December we will be back to normal. Huwag ninyo ‘yang new normal, new normal kasi sabi ko nga noon pag-umpisa natin hintayin lang natin ‘yung vaccine ,” Duterte said. Excluded from the government’s distribution list are the country’s rich “who can buy their own vaccine” as well as the “drug pushers and drug addicts,” according to the President.
Duterte said he would ask Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and the military to implement the distribution of the coronavirus vaccines to the rightful beneficiaries.In the meeting with some Cabinet members, the President asked Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III to discuss how the government will finance the vaccine acquisition program.
He said the health department will include the P20 billion allocation for the vaccine procurement in its budget. Dominguez noted that three pharmaceutical firms from China, a company from the United Kingdom, and another firm from the United States are expected to complete the third stage of the trials of their potential coronavirus vaccines by October.
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