PSG chief on who administered COVID vaccine to his members: 'We ourselves'
By Deighton Acuin and Archie Villaflores
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| PSG Commander Jesus Durante (PHOTO: Asian Journal) |
President Rodrigo Duterte's security personnel administered
the coronavirus jabs among themselves, without any help of medical experts, the
Presidential Security Group (PSG) chief said Wednesday.
“We vaccinated
ourselves. It’s so easy,” PSG Chief Colonel Jesus Durante admitted in an
interview on ANC’s “Headstart.”
Asked if Durante
himself inoculated the vaccine to the PSG officials, he added: “As I’ve said,
we vaccinated ourselves. It is within our command.”
“We’ve done our
research. For now, we’ve found the appropriate vaccine for us, which I could
say is a traditional vaccine, so we took the risk,” Durante further said.
Meanwhile, Department of Interior and Local Government
(DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año bared that a Cabinet official and a number of PSG
members already received vaccine shots.
However, the country's Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
said there are no approved vaccines yet, adding it is illegal to import,
distribute, and for a medical practitioner to inoculate unregistered health
products.
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