THE Health department is now streamlining the list of remaining vaccines and set to use two to three brands soon adding that the government will no longer buy other Covid-19 vaccine brands from other countries.
In an ANC interview, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire when asked if the DOH is pushing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove certain vaccine brands from the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to encourage more people to get vaccinated, she explained they could only do so when the vaccines have received their Certificate of Product Registration (CPR).
“Meaning, it has finished and it has been evaluated that it can have this CPR. Once we have that and it is already included in our law for vaccines, then the EUA will cease to be authorized or cease to exist,” she said.
If this happens, Vergeire said the government will have a year to transition to the CPR.
“What we are doing right now is we are trying to streamline our vaccine brands whereby we are not ordering anymore some of the vaccine brands. We are just using it up, finishing the existing stocks,” she said.
“Moving forward, we will just have two to three brands in the country,” she added.
EUA is an authorization issued for unregistered drugs and vaccines in a public health emergency such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
So far, the Philippine FDA has approved the EUA for Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Janssen, Coronavac, Sputnik V, Covaxin, Sinopharm, and Covovax COVID-19 vaccines.
