THE government will continue performing autopsies on children who died from severe dengue after receiving the controversial vaccine that was supposed to protect them against the mosquito-borne disease.

In a press conference on Monday, Palace spokesman Harry Roque said performing autopsies was needed to find out the truth, especially after the the Dengue Investigative Task Force, consisting of doctors and experts from the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital(UP-PGH) found that three of 14 deaths may have been caused by Dengvaxia.

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