The arrival of the COVID-19 bivalent vaccines set to be donated by the COVAX facility to the Philippines has been placed on maintain as a result of sure situations required by vaccine producers, Department of Health officer-in-charge Maria Rosario Vergeire mentioned Tuesday.
The delay is attributable to the change in situations on the immunity from legal responsibility and indemnification clauses required by producers after the Philippines lifted the state of calamity as a result of COVID-19.
“We have tried exhausting all possible means so that this transaction will push through. We were in constant coordination with the Office of the President, with the Department of Justice, with the Office of Solicitor General just so we can identify available legal remedies so that we can go on and have these COVAX donations,” Vergeire mentioned.
“Ito ang pinag-aaralan mabuti para naman hindi natin nagi-give up ‘yung ating mga karapatan bilang bansa in terms of these agreements. So for now, naka-hold po tayo, but we are confident that we can still push through and get these COVAX donations,” she added.
(This is being studied rigorously in order that we don’t hand over our rights as a rustic by way of these agreements. So for now, we’re on maintain, however we’re assured that we are able to nonetheless push via and get these COVAX donations.)
The first batch of donated bivalent vaccines was purported to arrive by the top of March. This consists of 1,002,000 doses which the COVAX dedicated to the Philippines.
Bivalent vaccines are second-generation jabs that focus on the Omicron variant.
Vergeire defined that one possibility they’re is the stipulation within the invoice establishing the Philippine Center for Disease Control (CDC) which might cowl vaccine agreements.
“Tayo po ay nag-include diyan ng isang probisyon kung saan mako-cover na itong mga iniiwasan natin o itong mga provisions na kailangan sa mga agreements natin with those that are going to donate vaccines for COVID-19 here in the country,” she mentioned.
(We have included a provision which covers this stuff that we need to keep away from or these provisions which are wanted in our agreements with these which are going to donate COVID-19 vaccines right here within the nation.) —VAL, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
