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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 2) – President Rodrigo Duterte signed an order on Wednesday giving the country’s Food and Drug Administration the power to allow the emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.
Executive Order No. 121 allows FDA Director General Eric Domingo to issue Emergency Use Authorization (US) to drug and vaccine manufacturers.
With the newly signed order, the use of a vaccine can be approved within a month instead of undergoing the usual six-month review period.
Domingo previously assured the public that security will not be compromised with the expedited process. He said the FDA and the Department of Health are already working to strengthen the government’s vaccine monitoring efforts to easily detect potential adverse effects after inoculation.
The country’s COVID-19 task force is looking to administer vaccines from different manufacturers to at least 70 million Filipinos. The vaccination program will run for three to five years with 25-30 million Filipinos vaccinated each year.
This is a story in development.
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