Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno has assured the public that the government has sufficient resources to provide booster shots to Filipinos and even procure bivalent vaccines in the future.
Diokno disclosed on Friday that the national government still has $800 million in loans to purchase bivalent vaccines if needed.
“How long would it take to use up [all of those doses] at a rate of 10,000 daily? Maybe 90 days,” he told members of the Makati Business Club during a forum organized by the group on Friday. Jakosalem explained that without the extension of the declaration of a state of calamity, private companies would undergo the regular bureaucratic process of procuring vaccines, which is by securing certificate of product registration or CPR.
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