By Neil Jerome Morales
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippines continues to negotiate home agreements with a wide variety of COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers, his ministry of fitness said Wednesday, while its president scolded Western corporations and said he was looking for Chinese and Russian vaccines.
The Philippines, which has the highest number of infections and the current number of deaths in Southeast Asia, is potentially a giant market for vaccine brands with a population of 107 million.
“We are still negotiating,” Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire told Reuters in a text message. “No vaccine manufacturer has” officially requested a prepayment, although there have been insinuations in the discussions. “
President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday criticized Western vaccine manufacturers for requesting an advance payment or reserve for vaccines still in clinical trials.
He pledged to prioritize Russia or China, a country that praises its historic verbal diatribes in the West.
His government has been in talks with several potential vaccine providers, adding those from Russia and China, as well as with U. S. drug manufacturer Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc. He plans to meet with Australian biotech giant CSL Ltd.
A Philippine government procurement law prohibits the payment of goods long before delivery and before product specifications are final, putting the country at a disadvantage over the long-awaited world call for vaccines. The Philippines has recorded nearly 270,000 coronavirus infections and more than 4,600 deaths.
On the other hand, countries like the US and UK have committed to buying heaps of millions of doses even though vaccines are still in the overdue testing phase.
The Philippines has joined a vaccine allocation and testing plan led by the World Health Organization and is presenting itself as a candidate for phase 3 trials by pharmaceutical companies, Vergeire said.
“We are making every effort to access these vaccines,” Vergeire said at a regular press conference.
(Report through Neil Jerome Morales; Edited through Martin Petty)
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