DOH tells Sinopharm jab recipients to wait for booster recommendation

A health worker shows a vial of China's Sinopharm vaccine against the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, as risk patients are being inoculated at a health center in La Paz, Bolivia on March 1, 2021.

AFP / Aizar Raldes

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health on Thursday asked Filipinos who received the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese firm Sinopharm to wait for the recommendation of experts on which booster brand should be administered to them.

DOH Secretary Myrna Cabotaje told state broadcaster PTV that experts have yet to issue a recommendation because the data submitted to the country’s Food and Drug Administration did not specify which vaccine brand could be used as booster for Sinopharm.

“Maghintay-hintay lang muna (Just wait for a bit),” Cabotaje said.

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