Sen. Panfilo Lacson during the hybrid hearing of the Committee of the Whole on the national Covid-19 vaccination program on January 11, 2021. Senate PRIB file photo / Joseph Vidal
MANILA, Philippines — Senator Panfilo Lacson doubts that the lack of available data led the Department of Health to submit to the Senate last year an “unreasonably high” indicative price of China’s Sinovac vaccine. “Unverified reports that some shenanigans working behind the scene might have fed the DOH the unreasonably high price of the Sinovac vaccine could lend credence to the attempt to dupe the Filipino taxpayers even during a pandemic,” Lacson said in a statement Monday.“As early as Oct. 14, 2020, it was reported that the price of Sinovac vaccines in Indonesia was about P683. There is also a price range of P650 to P700 per dose that was relayed to us. This is quite far from the P3,629.
When asked, Lacson told INQUIRER.net that the unverified information was relayed to him before Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, in a Senate hearing on Friday, said the indicative price of Sinovac submitted to the Senate last year
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