“Assuming that the 50 percent efficacy rate is true, doctors have repeatedly explained that. That’s still a guarantee against serious illness or even death because of COVID-19 and that’s why it’s still OK as a protection (against the pandemic),” presidential spokesman Harry Roque said.
Gao Fu, director of China’s disease control center, has been quoted in earlier reports as saying that China is considering mixing different COVID-19 vaccines to address its low efficacy rate. Gao also said China is making adjustments in the dosage.
Despite the tight global vaccine supply, Roque assured the public that the Philippines would get the pandemic jabs it ordered.
“There is no problem with regard to the second dose of Sinovac because Sinovac guaranteed our supply,” Roque said.
Workers in A4 priority
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