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Sotto: Senate committee of the whole inquiry focus is PHL COVID-19 vaccine roadmap

(Eagle News) — Senate President Tito Sotto said the committee of the whole’s set inquiry was on the country’s vaccine roadmap. Sotto made the statement after President Rodrigo Duterte said he was “not so keen” on allowing Presidential Security Group chief Brigadier General Jesus Durante and other PSG members to testify should Congress summon them over the COVID-19 vaccination of some of their members. The Food and Drug Administration has so far not yet issued […]

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AFP calls off probe into COVID-19 vaccination of PSG members

(Eagle News) — The Armed Forces of the Philippines has called off its probe into the inoculation of Presidential Security Group members for COVID-19. AFP spokesperson Major General Edgard Arevalo’s announcement came after President Rodrigo Duterte defended the PSG over its move, noting their need for “self-preservation.” “They have every right to live and invoke (self-preservation). In criminal law, that is the right to self-defense. The enemy? COVID,” the President said in his weekly talk […]

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