PH won’t pay vaccine reservation fee – Duterte

President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to procure Covid-19 vaccines made in China and Russia as he took a swipe at Western pharmaceutical companies asking for advance payment for their vaccine research and development efforts.

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members at the Malago Clubhouse in Malacañang on September 14, 2020.