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Vaccination of PSG men not part of COVID-19 vaccine rollout —Año
By ANNA FELICIA BAJO,GMA NewsThe use of unregistered COVID-19 vaccines on some members of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) is not part of the rollout of the vaccines in the country, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said Tuesday.
"This is not part of the rollout, this is not part of the procurement of the government. This is just on their (PSG) own initiative so there's no connection or any apprehension about the distribution," Año said in an interview on ANC.
Año was reacting to the complaints of some frontline health workers regarding prioritization in connection with COVID-19 vaccines.
"The President has already laid out the guidelines on who are the priorities, the healthcare workers, the vulnerable, the indigent families and then the soldiers," he added.
FDA Director General Eric Domingo said they are looking into the vaccination
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Año stressed that the use of unregistered vaccine is not a policy of the government.
"There's no policy that we are getting vaccines without FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approval officially," he said. "So it's not a policy."
Año, meanwhile, asked the public not to complicate the matter as he maintained that there is nothing illegal about the said vaccination. He also said only a "handful of soldiers" received the vaccine.
"Don't complicate things, just as simple as the soldiers protecting the masses would want to be inoculated and they're able to get some donation on it, and the country [that] provided it has an approved EUA (emergency use authorization). It's just simple, let's not complicate things," he said.
"These are just handful of soldiers, kaunti lang 'yan. Wala pa tayong rollout because wala pa nga tayong nabibiling vaccine. These are just few people so I don't see anything wrong with that," he added. —KBK, GMA News