PSG to submit list of unregistered COVID-19 vaccine recipients —Duque

The Presidential Security Group (PSG) has agreed to provide a list of its personnel who received unregistered COVID-19 vaccines, Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III said Monday.

At the Laging Handa press briefing, Duque said the DOH asked for the list so it could monitor the possible adverse effects of the unregistered vaccine to the health of the recipients.

“Ang kasunduan po magbibigay sila ng listahan ng mga nagpaturok nang para sa ganun mabantayan po natin for any adverse reactions,” Duque said.

“Ibig sabihikn kung meron bang kakaibang reaksyon mula noong sila’y naturukan at kinakailangan pong suportahan at tugunan kung ano man ‘yung kanilang nararamdaman,” he added,

Duque said he had a meeting with Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and PSG commander Brigadier General Jesus Durante III on Saturday, which led to this agreement.

The inoculation of some PSG personnel came to light after President Rodrigo Duterte bared that some members of the military had already received a COVID-19 vaccine

Durante said that his unit acquired the COVID-19 vaccine for free, but refused to disclose its source.

According to him, the military personnel injected the authorized vaccines to themselves and nobody outside the military was involved in the vaccination.

Durante defended the inoculation, saying that Duterte’s close-in-security detail “needs to ensure that they are not themselves a threat to the President's health and safety.”

Sinopharm has denied it supplied the vaccine used on the PSG personnel, according to its sole distribuotor in the Philippines. --KBK, GMA News