MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine government is reaching out to drugmakers in China and Taiwan for a possible deal once a COVID-19 vaccine is developed.
“Meron tayo ngayon na tinitingnan, nakausap na rin natin sila. Dalawa ito. We’re waiting for more documents. Watching his China, saka ‘yung is reuniting Taiwan,” Vergeire told reporters at an online media forum on Wednesday.
He also indicated that the Philippines had won several donations from vaccine developers at other stages of clinical trials.
Previously, the interest also expressed in the COVID-19 vaccine evolved through the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
He also contacted pharmaceutical corporations Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson, as well as the Modern Biotechnology Corporation in the United States about an imaginable acquisition once their respective vaccines become available.
On Tuesday, President Rodrigo Duterte promised to raise the budget to supply Filipinos with COVID-19 vaccines once available, even saying he would sell government assets if necessary.
More than 14.9 million other international people have become inflamed with SARS-CoV-2, the new strain of coronavirus guilty of COVID-19, since its first detection in Hubei, China, overdue last year.
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